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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

Bela Lugosi

I never drink… wine.
BELA LUGOSI

Drink never Wine
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
BELA LUGOSI

Necessary Theory Window
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Ambition Character Roles
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Pleasure Years
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
BELA LUGOSI

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

Ghouls might Vampires
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
BELA LUGOSI

Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
BELA LUGOSI

Career Law Philosophy
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
BELA LUGOSI

Emotion Human Thinking
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
BELA LUGOSI

Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
BELA LUGOSI

Finals Lovers Triumphant
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
BELA LUGOSI

Ignorance Lying Mean
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
BELA LUGOSI

Art Degrees Years
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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
BELA LUGOSI

Predestination Suffering Women

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