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I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

Bela Lugosi

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
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Believe People Play
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.
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Hell People Umpires
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.
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Cry Horror Over
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
BELA LUGOSI

Different Evil Thinking
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.
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Fever Role Vampire
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Believe People Personality
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’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Ambition Character Roles
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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Actor Mad Plumbers
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.
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Stage Technique Thousand
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
BELA LUGOSI

Ignorance Lying Mean

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