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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 love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
BELA LUGOSI

Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSI

Company Film Red
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
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
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
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Actor Pleasure Years
I never play without my cape.
BELA LUGOSI

Capes never Play
Women have a predestination to suffering.
BELA LUGOSI

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

Ghouls might Vampires
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
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
I never drink… wine.
BELA LUGOSI

Drink never Wine
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
BELA LUGOSI

Challenges Compelling Offer
My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
BELA LUGOSI

Bed Heart Hot Sheets
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
BELA LUGOSI

Any Good Stories Take
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
BELA LUGOSI

Art Degrees Years
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
BELA LUGOSI

Ghouls Play School
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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

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