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When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.

Bela Lugosi

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
BELA LUGOSI

heavy Language Speech
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
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
BELA LUGOSI

Believe People Play
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
BELA LUGOSI

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

Necessary Theory Window
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
BELA LUGOSI

Ghouls might Vampires
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Agony Blood Race
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
I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
BELA LUGOSI

Heart Mind People
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 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
The stage is near and dear to me.
BELA LUGOSI

Dear Near Stage
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
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
BELA LUGOSI

Actors Giving Performance
I never play without my cape.
BELA LUGOSI

Capes never Play
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
BELA LUGOSI

Life People Thinking

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