Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
BELA LUGOSIIn 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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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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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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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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The stage is near and dear to me.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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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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To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
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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 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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