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

Bela Lugosi

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

Necessary Theory Window
The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
BELA LUGOSI

Fever Role Vampire
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
BELA LUGOSI

People Serious Seriousness
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
BELA LUGOSI

Black Cat Cat
I never play without my cape.
BELA LUGOSI

Capes never Play
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
BELA LUGOSI

Narcotics Twenty Year Years
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
BELA LUGOSI

Dead Glorious Dies
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSI

Company Film Red
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
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
BELA LUGOSI

Important Paycheck Truthful
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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
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
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
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
It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
BELA LUGOSI

Hell People Umpires

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