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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

Bela Lugosi

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
BELA LUGOSI

Believe People Personality
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Mad Plumbers
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
BELA LUGOSI

Ghouls might Vampires
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
BELA LUGOSI

Finals Lovers Triumphant
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
BELA LUGOSI

Challenges Compelling Offer
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
BELA LUGOSI

Career Law Philosophy
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
BELA LUGOSI

Emotion Human Thinking
I never drink… wine.
BELA LUGOSI

Drink never Wine
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
BELA LUGOSI

People Serious Seriousness
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
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
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
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

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