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

Bela Lugosi

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

Ignorance Lying Mean
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSI

Company Film Red
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
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
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
BELA LUGOSI

Necessary Theory Window
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work 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.
BELA LUGOSI

Stage Technique Thousand
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
BELA LUGOSI

Life People Thinking
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Agony Blood Race

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