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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

Bela Lugosi

I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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Actors Giving Performance
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Betrayed Enemy Imagination
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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.
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Hell People Umpires
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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Play Roles Years
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Believe People Play
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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.
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Actor Performance Stage
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean

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