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

Bela Lugosi

Death, the final, triumphant lover.
BELA LUGOSI

Finals Lovers Triumphant
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSI

Freak Reduce Stand
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
BELA LUGOSI

Emotion Human Thinking
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
BELA LUGOSI

Dead Glorious Dies
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSI

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

Amusement Hollywood Type
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
BELA LUGOSI

Necessary Theory Window
The stage is near and dear to me.
BELA LUGOSI

Dear Near Stage
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
BELA LUGOSI

Hard Roles Work Years
I never play without my cape.
BELA LUGOSI

Capes never Play
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
BELA LUGOSI

Any Good Stories Take
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
BELA LUGOSI

heavy Language Speech
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
BELA LUGOSI

Take Winning Women
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Mad Plumbers
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
BELA LUGOSI

Actors Capitalist States
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
BELA LUGOSI

Actors Giving Performance

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