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Bela Lugosi

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Bela Lugosi
Age: 73 †
Born: 1882
Born: October 20
Died: 1956
Died: August 16
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Film Actor
Stage Actor
Trade Unionist
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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.
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I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
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I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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I never play without my cape.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.
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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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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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I've been using narcotics for 20 years.
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In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.
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The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.
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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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