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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.

Bela Lugosi

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
BELA LUGOSI

Amusement Hollywood Type
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
BELA LUGOSI

Play Roles 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
I never play without my cape.
BELA LUGOSI

Capes never Play
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Agony Blood Race
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
BELA LUGOSI

Betrayed Enemy Imagination
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Mad Plumbers
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
BELA LUGOSI

Narcotics Twenty Year Years
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
BELA LUGOSI

Hard Roles Work Years
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
BELA LUGOSI

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

Freak Reduce Stand
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
BELA LUGOSI

Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSI

Company Film Red
A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Performance Stage

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