Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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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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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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I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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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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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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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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