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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.

Bela Lugosi

I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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Play Roles Years
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
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
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 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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer

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