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Bela Lugosi

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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 studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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 look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
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Actor Performance Stage

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