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

Director Expression Moving
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
BELA LUGOSI

Necessary Theory Window
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
BELA LUGOSI

Life People Thinking
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
BELA LUGOSI

Art Degrees Years
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
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
BELA LUGOSI

heavy Language Speech
I never play without my cape.
BELA LUGOSI

Capes never Play
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
BELA LUGOSI

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

Actors Giving Performance
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
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 never drink… wine.
BELA LUGOSI

Drink never Wine
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
BELA LUGOSI

Any Good Stories Take
I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
BELA LUGOSI

Stage Technique Thousand
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
BELA LUGOSI

Actors Capitalist States

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