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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.

Bela Lugosi

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

Interesting Play Roles
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
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Believe People Play
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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
BELA LUGOSI

Art Degrees Years
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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
BELA LUGOSI

Important Paycheck Truthful

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