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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.

Bela Lugosi

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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Character Ghouls Romantic Love
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Betrayed Enemy Imagination
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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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.
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Stage Technique Thousand
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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Play Roles Years
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
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
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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
BELA LUGOSI

Dead Glorious Dies
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
BELA LUGOSI

Myself Tears Torture
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 have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
BELA LUGOSI

Done Roles Stage

That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.

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