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 LUGOSIOf all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Every actor’s greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
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When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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I never drink… wine.
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I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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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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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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That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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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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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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