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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

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

Interesting Play Roles
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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heavy Language Speech
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
BELA LUGOSI

Narcotics Twenty Year Years
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
BELA LUGOSI

Hard Roles Work Years
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
BELA LUGOSI

Ignorance Lying Mean
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
BELA LUGOSI

Take Winning Women
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
BELA LUGOSI

Actors Capitalist States
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
BELA LUGOSI

Important Paycheck Truthful
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
BELA LUGOSI

People Serious Seriousness
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
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

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