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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

Bela Lugosi

I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Pleasure 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
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
BELA LUGOSI

Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
BELA LUGOSI

Art Degrees Years
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
BELA LUGOSI

Amusement Hollywood Type
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
BELA LUGOSI

Career Law Philosophy
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Cry Horror Over
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
BELA LUGOSI

Play Roles Years
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
BELA LUGOSI

Be You Looks Mirrors
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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
I never drink… wine.
BELA LUGOSI

Drink never Wine
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
BELA LUGOSI

Ghouls might Vampires

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