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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.

Bela Lugosi

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
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
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
BELA LUGOSI

Play Roles Years
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
BELA LUGOSI

Interesting Play Roles
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
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Mad Plumbers
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
BELA LUGOSI

Hard Roles Work Years
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
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
BELA LUGOSI

Actors Capitalist States
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
BELA LUGOSI

Narcotics Twenty Year Years

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.

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