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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’ll take any story if it’s good.
BELA LUGOSI

Any Good Stories Take
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
BELA LUGOSI

Career Law Philosophy
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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Play Roles Years
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
BELA LUGOSI

Black Cat Cat
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Believe People Play
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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.
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Agony Blood Race
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
BELA LUGOSI

Age Dependent Dimes
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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Actors Giving Performance
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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Fever Role Vampire
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
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
BELA LUGOSI

Dead Glorious Dies
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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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Hell People Umpires
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
BELA LUGOSI

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

Myself Tears Torture
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
BELA LUGOSI

heavy Language Speech
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
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

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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