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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

In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
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
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
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Bites Happen Irresistible Tomorrow
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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Career Law Philosophy
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
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
My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
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Bed Heart Hot Sheets
Every actor’s greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
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Ambition Character Roles
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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Fever Role Vampire
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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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Stage Technique Thousand
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
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Character Ghouls Romantic Love
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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Hard Roles Work Years
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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Heart Mind People
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
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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Play Roles Years

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