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

Bela Lugosi

I never drink… wine.
BELA LUGOSI

Drink never Wine
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 love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
BELA LUGOSI

Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
BELA LUGOSI

Finals Lovers Triumphant
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
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Bed Heart Hot Sheets
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSI

Freak Reduce Stand
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
BELA LUGOSI

Dead Glorious Dies
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
BELA LUGOSI

Ghouls might Vampires
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
BELA LUGOSI

Actors Giving Performance
The stage is near and dear to me.
BELA LUGOSI

Dear Near Stage
I never play without my cape.
BELA LUGOSI

Capes never Play
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
BELA LUGOSI

Take Winning Women
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
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
BELA LUGOSI

Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
BELA LUGOSI

Challenges Compelling Offer
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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSI

Company Film Red
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
BELA LUGOSI

Director Expression Moving
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
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
BELA LUGOSI

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

Interesting Play Roles
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
BELA LUGOSI

Different Evil Thinking
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
BELA LUGOSI

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

Actor Mad Plumbers
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
BELA LUGOSI

Narcotics Twenty Year Years

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