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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

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
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
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
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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Actors Giving Performance
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
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
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
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
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years

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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