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1. The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
2. 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.
3. My close-up was magnificent!
4. The stage is near and dear to me.
5. In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
6. The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
7. Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
8. People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
9. If you are not serious, people will sense it.
10. In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.
11. I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
12. When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
13. I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
14. To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
15. Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
16. It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
17. I’ll take any story if it’s good.
18. I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
19. If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
20. 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.