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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.

Bela Lugosi

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
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Believe People Play
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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Life People Thinking
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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Agony Blood Race

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