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

Bela Lugosi

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

Actor Mad Plumbers
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
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
BELA LUGOSI

Ghouls might Vampires
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
BELA LUGOSI

Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSI

Company Film Red
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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.
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Bed Heart Hot Sheets
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
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
BELA LUGOSI

Take Winning Women
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Cry Horror Over
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
BELA LUGOSI

Important Paycheck Truthful

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