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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

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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Actors Giving Performance
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Actor Pleasure Years
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
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
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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Ghouls Play School
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
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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