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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.

Bela Lugosi

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
BELA LUGOSI

Play Roles Years
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Heart Mind People
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
BELA LUGOSI

Ghouls Play School
Women have a predestination to suffering.
BELA LUGOSI

Predestination Suffering Women
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
BELA LUGOSI

Be You Looks Mirrors
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSI

Company Film Red
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
BELA LUGOSI

Emotion Human Thinking
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
BELA LUGOSI

Different Evil Thinking
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
BELA LUGOSI

Important Paycheck Truthful
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
BELA LUGOSI

Believe People Play
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
BELA LUGOSI

Ghouls might Vampires
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
BELA LUGOSI

Betrayed Enemy Imagination
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Agony Blood Race
The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
BELA LUGOSI

Fever Role Vampire
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
BELA LUGOSI

Art Degrees Years
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
BELA LUGOSI

Ignorance Lying Mean

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.

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