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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.

Bela Lugosi

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

Necessary Theory Window
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Hell People Umpires
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
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
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
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
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
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
BELA LUGOSI

Be You Looks Mirrors
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
BELA LUGOSI

Amusement Hollywood Type
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Pleasure Years
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Stage Technique Thousand
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
BELA LUGOSI

Any Good Stories Take
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
BELA LUGOSI

Ignorance Lying Mean
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
BELA LUGOSI

Take Winning Women
I never drink… wine.
BELA LUGOSI

Drink never Wine
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
BELA LUGOSI

Done Roles Stage

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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