The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
From Bela Lugosi
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.
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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.
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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