I never play without my cape.
BELA LUGOSIThe 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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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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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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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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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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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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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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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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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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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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