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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.

Bela Lugosi

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

Different Evil Thinking
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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
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
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
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
BELA LUGOSI

Amusement Hollywood Type
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
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Career Law Philosophy
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
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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
BELA LUGOSI

Done Roles Stage

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