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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Bela Lugosi

In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Actor Pleasure Years
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
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
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
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 actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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Actor Mad Plumbers

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