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I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.

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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
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
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 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
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.
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Cry Horror Over
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
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 never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture

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