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I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.

Bela Lugosi

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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Play Roles Years
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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
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
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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Actor Mad Plumbers
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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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 never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
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
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine

I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.

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