I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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More Bela Lugosi Quotes
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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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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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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I never drink… wine.
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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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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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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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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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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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