Bela Lugosi Quotes & Sayings

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state. — Bela Lugosi

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision. — Bela Lugosi

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary. — Bela Lugosi

When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same. — Bela Lugosi

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy. — Bela Lugosi

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow. — Bela Lugosi

Death, the final, triumphant lover. — Bela Lugosi

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. — Bela Lugosi

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression. — Bela Lugosi

I've been using narcotics for 20 years. — Bela Lugosi

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek. — Bela Lugosi

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge. — Bela Lugosi

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it. — Bela Lugosi

That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not. — Bela Lugosi

Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula. — Bela Lugosi

The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible. — Bela Lugosi

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life. — Bela Lugosi

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. — Bela Lugosi

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

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers. — Bela Lugosi

The stage is near and dear to me. — Bela Lugosi

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner. — Bela Lugosi

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom. — Bela Lugosi

This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. You are wasting my time. — Bela Lugosi

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension. — Bela Lugosi

I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree. — Bela Lugosi

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. — Bela Lugosi

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac. — Bela Lugosi

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. — Bela Lugosi

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman. — Bela Lugosi

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo? — Bela Lugosi

I never play without my cape. — Bela Lugosi

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role. — Bela Lugosi

The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking. — Bela Lugosi

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy. — Bela Lugosi

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula. — Bela Lugosi

I never drink... wine. — Bela Lugosi

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. — Bela Lugosi

If you are not serious, people will sense it. — Bela Lugosi

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting. — Bela Lugosi

Women have a predestination to suffering. — Bela Lugosi

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession. — Bela Lugosi

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. — Bela Lugosi

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. Bela Lugosi. — Bela Lugosi

I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person. — Bela Lugosi

I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion. — Bela Lugosi

It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me. — Bela Lugosi

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. — Bela Lugosi

I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me. — Bela Lugosi

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties ... they live like ants. — Bela Lugosi

My close-up was magnificent! — Bela Lugosi

I will not be tortured, I tear torture out of myself by torturing you! — Bela Lugosi

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me. — Bela Lugosi

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success. — Bela Lugosi

I'll take any story if it's good. — Bela Lugosi