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In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

Bela Lugosi

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 never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
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Stage Technique Thousand
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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Character Ghouls Romantic Love
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
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 have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean

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