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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
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
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
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
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
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
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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 took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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Play Roles Years
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
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
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
BELA LUGOSI

Actors Capitalist States
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
I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
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Stage Technique Thousand
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant

The stage is near and dear to me.

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