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A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

Bela Lugosi

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

Necessary Theory Window
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSI

Freak Reduce Stand
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
BELA LUGOSI

Hard Roles Work Years
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
BELA LUGOSI

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

Be You Looks Mirrors
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
BELA LUGOSI

Myself Tears Torture
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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
BELA LUGOSI

Different Evil Thinking
The stage is near and dear to me.
BELA LUGOSI

Dear Near Stage
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
BELA LUGOSI

Narcotics Twenty Year Years
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
BELA LUGOSI

Character Ghouls Romantic Love
I never drink… wine.
BELA LUGOSI

Drink never Wine
Women have a predestination to suffering.
BELA LUGOSI

Predestination Suffering Women
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
BELA LUGOSI

Director Expression Moving
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
BELA LUGOSI

Emotion Human Thinking

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