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.
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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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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I never play without my cape.
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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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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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I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
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I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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