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

Bela Lugosi

I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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
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
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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heavy Language Speech
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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 have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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