It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
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.
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.