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

Bela Lugosi

I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Pleasure 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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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Character Ghouls Romantic Love
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
BELA LUGOSI

Amusement Hollywood Type
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
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
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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Ghouls Play School
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
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 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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Stage Technique Thousand
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean

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