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

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Umpires

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

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 Thousand
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.

BELA LUGOSI

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

Narcotics Twenty Year Years
Every actor’s greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.

BELA LUGOSI

Every actor’s greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
BELA LUGOSI

Roles
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.

BELA LUGOSI

I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
BELA LUGOSI
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
BELA LUGOSI

heavy Language
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.

BELA LUGOSI

When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSI

Red
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

BELA LUGOSI

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

Torture
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
BELA LUGOSI

Dependent Dimes
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
BELA LUGOSI

Finals Lovers Triumphant
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

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 Race
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

BELA LUGOSI

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

Glorious Dies
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.

BELA LUGOSI

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
BELA LUGOSI
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
BELA LUGOSI

Amusement Type
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
BELA LUGOSI
If you are not serious, people will sense it.

BELA LUGOSI

If you are not serious, people will sense it.
BELA LUGOSI

Seriousness
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

BELA LUGOSI

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

Hard Roles Years

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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