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I've been using narcotics for 20 years.

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
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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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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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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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I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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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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In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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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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When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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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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I'll take any story if it's good.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.
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The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.
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I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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I never play without my cape.
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In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.
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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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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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