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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 guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
BELA LUGOSI

Heart Mind People
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

Fever Role Vampire
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year 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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Cry Horror Over
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
BELA LUGOSI

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
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
BELA LUGOSI

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

Ghouls might Vampires

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