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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.

Bela Lugosi

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
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
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
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Actor Pleasure Years
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
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
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 never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking

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