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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

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
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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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Ambition Character Roles
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
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
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Be You Looks Mirrors
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
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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Actors Capitalist States
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
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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Heart Mind People
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 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 be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
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
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
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Narcotics Twenty Year Years

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