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The stage is near and dear to me.

Bela Lugosi

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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
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
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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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
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
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

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