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

Bela Lugosi

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.
BELA LUGOSI

Cry Horror Over
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
BELA LUGOSI

Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
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 studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
BELA LUGOSI

Art Degrees Years
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Performance Stage

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