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In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.

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 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
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
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
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Amusement Hollywood Type
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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Take Winning Women
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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
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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Age Dependent Dimes

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