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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

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
BELA LUGOSI

Ghouls might Vampires
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
BELA LUGOSI

Emotion Human Thinking
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
BELA LUGOSI

Ignorance Lying Mean
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSI

Freak Reduce Stand
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
BELA LUGOSI

Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
Women have a predestination to suffering.
BELA LUGOSI

Predestination Suffering Women
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
BELA LUGOSI

Hard Roles Work Years
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
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
BELA LUGOSI

Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
BELA LUGOSI

Cry Horror Over
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
BELA LUGOSI

Myself Tears Torture
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
BELA LUGOSI

Actors Giving Performance
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
BELA LUGOSI

Dead Glorious Dies
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
BELA LUGOSI

Important Paycheck Truthful
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
BELA LUGOSI

Actors Capitalist States
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

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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