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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.

Bela Lugosi

In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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
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
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
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 never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine

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