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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

Bela Lugosi

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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
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 have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
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
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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Age Dependent Dimes
A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
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Actor Performance Stage

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

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