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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

Bela Lugosi

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

Important Paycheck Truthful
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
BELA LUGOSI

heavy Language Speech
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
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
BELA LUGOSI

Challenges Compelling Offer
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSI

Company Film Red
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSI

Freak Reduce Stand
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
BELA LUGOSI

Finals Lovers Triumphant
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
BELA LUGOSI

Play Roles Years
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
BELA LUGOSI

Hard Roles Work Years
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 look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
The stage is near and dear to me.
BELA LUGOSI

Dear Near Stage
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
BELA LUGOSI

Director Expression Moving
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
BELA LUGOSI

Emotion Human Thinking

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