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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Bela Lugosi

Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Done Roles Stage
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
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
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
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
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Finals Lovers Triumphant
Women have a predestination to suffering.
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Predestination Suffering Women
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
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
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
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
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
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine

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