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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.

Bela Lugosi

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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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 vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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Character Ghouls Romantic Love
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
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Career Law Philosophy
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
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
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
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
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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heavy Language Speech
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
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

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