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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

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’ll take any story if it’s good.
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Any Good Stories Take
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
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
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
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Dead Glorious Dies
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
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Director Expression Moving
I never drink… wine.
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Drink never Wine
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’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
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Interesting Play Roles
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 have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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Ghouls might Vampires
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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Play Roles Years
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
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Emotion Human Thinking
I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful

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