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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

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

Ignorance Lying Mean
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
BELA LUGOSI

Finals Lovers Triumphant
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
BELA LUGOSI

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

Myself Tears Torture
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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
BELA LUGOSI

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

Narcotics Twenty Year Years
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
BELA LUGOSI

Director Expression Moving
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
BELA LUGOSI

Done Roles Stage
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
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
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

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.

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