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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.

Bela Lugosi

If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
BELA LUGOSI

Different Evil Thinking
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
I never drink… wine.
BELA LUGOSI

Drink never Wine
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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.
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Agony Blood Race
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Pleasure 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.
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Stage Technique Thousand
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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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Heart Mind People
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving

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