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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

Bela Lugosi

I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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
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
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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Hell People Umpires
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
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
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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Play Roles Years
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
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Betrayed Enemy Imagination
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving

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