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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

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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
BELA LUGOSI

People Serious Seriousness
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
BELA LUGOSI

Amusement Hollywood Type
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
BELA LUGOSI

Director Expression Moving
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
The stage is near and dear to me.
BELA LUGOSI

Dear Near Stage
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
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
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSI

Freak Reduce Stand
Women have a predestination to suffering.
BELA LUGOSI

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

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

Interesting Play Roles
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
BELA LUGOSI

Different Evil Thinking

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.

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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.

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