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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

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 Speech
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
BELA LUGOSI

Be You Looks Mirrors
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
BELA LUGOSI

Different Evil Thinking
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSI

Freak Reduce Stand
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
BELA LUGOSI

Interesting Play Roles
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
BELA LUGOSI

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

Ignorance Lying Mean
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
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 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
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
BELA LUGOSI

Believe People Personality
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Mad Plumbers
I never drink… wine.
BELA LUGOSI

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

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

Dead Glorious Dies
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

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

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