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Bela Lugosi

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
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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 took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
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
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
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
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
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year 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

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