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Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

Bela Lugosi

I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
BELA LUGOSI

Narcotics Twenty Year Years
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
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
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
BELA LUGOSI

Betrayed Enemy Imagination
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.
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Actors Capitalist States
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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
BELA LUGOSI

Dead Glorious Dies
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 studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
BELA LUGOSI

Different Evil Thinking

Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

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