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

Bela Lugosi

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
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.
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Bed Heart Hot Sheets
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
I never drink… wine.
BELA LUGOSI

Drink never Wine
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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heavy Language Speech
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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Play Roles Years
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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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Heart Mind People
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
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
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
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.

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