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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

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
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Myself Tears Torture
The stage is near and dear to me.
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Dear Near Stage
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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
It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
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Hell People Umpires
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
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 look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors

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