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

Bela Lugosi

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
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
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
BELA LUGOSI

Character Ghouls Romantic Love
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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
BELA LUGOSI

Done Roles Stage
Women have a predestination to suffering.
BELA LUGOSI

Predestination Suffering Women
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
BELA LUGOSI

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

Necessary Theory Window
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
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

Actor Performance Stage
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
BELA LUGOSI

Narcotics Twenty Year Years
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
BELA LUGOSI

Important Paycheck Truthful
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSI

Freak Reduce Stand
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
BELA LUGOSI

Ghouls might Vampires

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