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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

Bela Lugosi

I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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
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
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 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 have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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Heart Mind People
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking

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