Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
BELA LUGOSII studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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I never drink… wine.
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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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.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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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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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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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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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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