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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’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
BELA LUGOSI

Narcotics Twenty Year Years
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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heavy Language Speech
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Betrayed Enemy Imagination
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
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.
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Ambition Character Roles
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
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 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.

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