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Bela Lugosi

I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
Every actor’s greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
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Ambition Character Roles
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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
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Fever Role Vampire
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Believe People Personality
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
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
It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
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Hell People Umpires
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years

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