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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

My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
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Bed Heart Hot Sheets
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees 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
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.
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Ambition Character Roles
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
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
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
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
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
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human 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
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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women

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