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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

Bela Lugosi

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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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 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
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 enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Actor Pleasure Years
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
BELA LUGOSI

Actors Capitalist States
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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

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