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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

Bela Lugosi

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
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Actor Performance Stage
I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
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Stage Technique Thousand
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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Actors Giving Performance
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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Ghouls Play School
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
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Cry Horror Over
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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Agony Blood Race
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Believe People Play
My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
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Bed Heart Hot Sheets
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Betrayed Enemy Imagination
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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