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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

Bela Lugosi

I never drink… wine.
BELA LUGOSI

Drink never Wine
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
BELA LUGOSI

Hard Roles Work Years
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
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
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
BELA LUGOSI

Any Good Stories Take
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
BELA LUGOSI

Art Degrees Years
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
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
BELA LUGOSI

Believe People Play
I never play without my cape.
BELA LUGOSI

Capes never Play
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
BELA LUGOSI

Different Evil Thinking
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
BELA LUGOSI

Challenges Compelling Offer
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
BELA LUGOSI

Myself Tears Torture
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
BELA LUGOSI

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

Interesting Play Roles
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
BELA LUGOSI

Ignorance Lying Mean
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
BELA LUGOSI

Black Cat Cat
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
The stage is near and dear to me.
BELA LUGOSI

Dear Near Stage
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
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
BELA LUGOSI

Be You Looks Mirrors
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
BELA LUGOSI

Narcotics Twenty Year Years
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Mad Plumbers
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
BELA LUGOSI

Dead Glorious Dies
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
BELA LUGOSI

Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom

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