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It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.

Bela Lugosi

I never play without my cape.
BELA LUGOSI

Capes never Play
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
BELA LUGOSI

Narcotics Twenty Year Years
Every actor’s greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
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Ambition Character Roles
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Freak Reduce Stand
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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 studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness

It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.

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It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.

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