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Bela Lugosi

When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
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’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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
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 stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
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
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires

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