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

Bela Lugosi

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

Necessary Theory Window
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
BELA LUGOSI

Black Cat Cat
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
BELA LUGOSI

Ignorance Lying Mean
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
BELA LUGOSI

Done Roles Stage
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
BELA LUGOSI

Hard Roles Work Years
Every actor’s greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
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Ambition Character Roles
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
BELA LUGOSI

Interesting Play Roles
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
BELA LUGOSI

Challenges Compelling Offer
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
BELA LUGOSI

Actors Capitalist States
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
BELA LUGOSI

Be You Looks Mirrors
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSI

Freak Reduce Stand

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