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

Bela Lugosi

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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Ghouls Play School
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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 Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
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Career Law Philosophy
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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 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
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Believe People Personality
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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Character Ghouls Romantic Love
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Betrayed Enemy Imagination

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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