“Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.”
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“Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.”
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“People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.”
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“It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.”
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“I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.”
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“You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.”
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“My close-up was magnificent!”
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“There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.”
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“To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.”
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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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“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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“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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“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 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 mi...”
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“My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.”
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“To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.”
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“Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.”
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“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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“Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.”
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“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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“Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.”
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