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Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

Bela Lugosi

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
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
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
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 die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer

Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

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