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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.

Bela Lugosi

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
BELA LUGOSI

Dead Glorious Dies
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
BELA LUGOSI

Age Dependent Dimes
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
BELA LUGOSI

Character Ghouls Romantic Love
Women have a predestination to suffering.
BELA LUGOSI

Predestination Suffering Women
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
BELA LUGOSI

People Serious Seriousness
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
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
BELA LUGOSI

Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
BELA LUGOSI

Be You Looks Mirrors
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
BELA LUGOSI

Life People Thinking
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
BELA LUGOSI

Finals Lovers Triumphant
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSI

Company Film Red
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
BELA LUGOSI

Director Expression Moving
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
My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
BELA LUGOSI

Bed Heart Hot Sheets
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
BELA LUGOSI

Amusement Hollywood Type
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
BELA LUGOSI

Hard Roles Work Years

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