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If you are not serious, people will sense it.

Bela Lugosi

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
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
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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
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
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
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
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

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