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 LUGOSIEvery producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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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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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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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’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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The 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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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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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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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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The stage is near and dear to me.
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You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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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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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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