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

Bela Lugosi

I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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Believe People Personality
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
BELA LUGOSI

Art Degrees Years
I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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Heart Mind People
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
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 win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
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
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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Actor Mad Plumbers
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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Character Ghouls Romantic Love
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
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Agony Blood Race

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