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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Bela Lugosi

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
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
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years

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