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I never play without my cape.

Bela Lugosi

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
BELA LUGOSI

Ghouls Play School
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
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Hell People Umpires
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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Character Ghouls Romantic Love
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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
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

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