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Bela Lugosi

I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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heavy Language Speech
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
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
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
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
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Actor Pleasure Years
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
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 love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.
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Cry Horror Over
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
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Company Film Red
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 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
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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Different Evil Thinking

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