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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

Bela Lugosi

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSI

Freak Reduce Stand
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
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
BELA LUGOSI

Art Degrees Years
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Believe People Play
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
BELA LUGOSI

Actors Capitalist States
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
BELA LUGOSI

Different Evil Thinking
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.
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Stage Technique Thousand
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
BELA LUGOSI

Myself Tears Torture
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
BELA LUGOSI

Ghouls Play School
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 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.
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Fever Role Vampire
I never drink… wine.
BELA LUGOSI

Drink never Wine
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSI

Company Film Red

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