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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

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
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Heart Mind People
The stage is near and dear to me.
BELA LUGOSI

Dear Near Stage
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
BELA LUGOSI

Ignorance Lying Mean
I never play without my cape.
BELA LUGOSI

Capes never Play
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
BELA LUGOSI

People Serious Seriousness
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
BELA LUGOSI

Necessary Theory Window
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Mad Plumbers
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSI

Freak Reduce Stand
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
BELA LUGOSI

Interesting Play Roles
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
BELA LUGOSI

Different Evil Thinking
My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
BELA LUGOSI

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

Amusement Hollywood Type
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

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

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