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Bela Lugosi

Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
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
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
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 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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Actor Pleasure Years
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States

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