Bela Quotes & Sayings

Most of the movies are working like, 'Information, cut, information, cut, information, cut' and for them the information is just the story. For me, a lot of things [are] information - I try to involve, to the movie, the time, the space, and a lot of other things - which is a part of our life but not connecting directly to the story-telling. And I'm working on the same way - 'information, cut, information, cut,' but for me the information is not only the story. — Bela Tarr

What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination. — Bela Karolyi

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about. — Bela Karolyi

I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious. — Bela Karolyi

A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice. — Bela Karolyi

Of the three women in Subhash's life - his mother, Gauri, Bela - there remained only one. His mother's mind was now a wilderness. There was no shape to it any longer, no clearing. It had been overtaken, overgrown. She'd been converted permanently by Udayan's death. That wilderness was her only freedom. She was locked inside her home, taken out once each day. Deepa would prevent her from endangering herself, from embarrassing herself, from making further scenes. But Gauri's mind had saved her. It had enabled her to stand upright. It had cleared a path for her. It had prepared her to walk away. — Jhumpa Lahiri

According to Bela Szabados, it can be dangerous to ignore philosophers' personalities because philosophizing is a personal interpretation of truth. — Skye Cleary

Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable. — Bela Bartok

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work! — Bela Fleck

I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation. — Bela Fleck

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

Growing up as a kid in Detroit, way back, there was a movie station that would show old kinescope reproductions of old movies, and I remember seeing Bela Lugosi for the first time and being duly frightened out of my wits. — Edward Herrmann

By the time I had complete my 22nd year, I was a new man - an atheist. — Bela Bartok

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

On weekdays, as soon as she picked Bela from the bus stop and brought her home, she went straight into the kitchen, washing up the morning dishes she'd ignored, then getting dinner started. She measured out the nightly cup of rice, letting it soak in a pan on the counter. She peeled onions and potatoes and picked through lentils and prepared another night's dinner, then fed Bela. She was never able to understand why this relatively unchallenging set of chores felt so relentless. When she was finished, she did not understand why they had depleted her — Jhumpa Lahiri

You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives! — Bela Karolyi

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

Competitions are for horses, not artists. — Bela Bartok

It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past. — Bela Kun

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

I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen. — Bela Karolyi

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

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz. — Bela Fleck

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

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

To hell with ideas - if people always did what, on careful consideration, was in their most selfish interest, there would be nothing with the world, there would be nothing wrong with the world. Who wants to die and starve? Nobody. If people weren't driven crazy by ideas and their God, nobody would, for instance, go to war in order to starve and to die a beastly death. — Bela Zsolt

If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all consist of unmeaning bunches of notes, apparently representing the composer promenading the keyboard in his boots. Some can be played better with the elbows, others with the flat of the hand. None require fingers to perform or ears to listen too. — Frederick Corder

My close-up was magnificent! — Bela Lugosi

There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I get to be one of the guys who does that, because it's coming. It's coming. — Bela Fleck

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

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

It is odd that the Bible says, 'God created man,' whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It is odd that the Bible says, 'The body is mortal, the soul is immortal,' whereas even here the contrary is true: the body (its matter) is eternal; the soul (the form of the body) is transitory. — Bela Bartok

Writing is like making jewelry -jeweler doesn't make a diamond, he polishes and cuts it, but the gem is from God. — Bela Abel

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

With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure. — Bela Bartok

I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it. — Bela Karolyi

She was in love with a vampire. Bela Lugosi. Nosferatu. Vlad the Impaler. Count Chocula . The urge to laugh seized her and she buried her face in her hands and cried instead. — Shelby Reed

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

She laughed again. "You must go to the movies a lot. This is not Dracula, and the villain isn't Bela Lugosi. They took a good friend away from me, and they know I know. But, at any rate, I did try to find her boyfriend the day after she disappeared. I knew where he lived and I went there. His landlord said he'd left unexpectedly and he didn't know where he'd gone. Lucky for me he wasn't there, I suppose." She took another deep breath and squinted at her watch. "Oh, my Lord. I didn't realize it was that late. I really must be going. — Donald Jeffries

I was a big fan of a writer named Jack Vance, a science fiction writer. He always wrote about these guys who were either going down a river in a strange world or would be in this one land where people acted really strange, and he'd have these interactions with them that were strange - he'd usually get run out of town or something. Then he'd end up in the next town over where the rules were totally different. And I love this stuff. — Bela Fleck

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

She turns on her laptop, raises her spectacles to her face. She reads the day's headlines. But they might be from any day. A click can take her from breaking news to articles archived years ago. At every moment the past is there, appended to the present. It's a version of Bela's definition, in childhood, of yesterday. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Fine, fine, everyone's fine," said the vampire, a mad gleam in his red eyes, crossing his arms over his chest as Bela Lugosi did in black-and-white films. "Fine as scattered pieces of sand."
She wondered how much effort it had taken him to talk to her the way he had - to, what was it he'd said? Keeping my thoughts clearly ordered - and how crazy he was going to be now, as a result of that strain. — Holly Black

Evolutionary learning calls upon our creative potentials as it empowers us to envision images of the future and bring those images to life by design. — Bela H. Banathy

I confess that if I were in Violet's place, with only a few minutes to open a locked suitcase, instead of on the deck of my friend Bela's yacht, writing this down, I probably would have given up hope. I would have sunk to the floor of the bedroom and pounded my fists against the carpet wondering why in the world life was so unfair and filled with inconveniences. — Lemony Snicket

Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn. — Bela Fleck

Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends. — Bela Karolyi

Dr. Grant was right, the feeling no longer swallows her. Bela lives on its periphery, she takes it in at a distance. The way her grandmother, sitting on a terrace in Tollygunge, used to spend her days overlooking a lowland, a pair of ponds. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up. — Bela Fleck

Then again, how could he expect Bela to be interested in marriage, given the example he and Gauri had given? They were a family of solitaries. They had collided and dispersed. This was her legacy. If nothing else, she had inherited that impulse from them. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

I'm 48, and I have been in love with vampires since I was six. I was born in 1962, so I've been through three or four waves of vampires. When I was growing up, we had vampire shows and movies. We were still dealing with Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and the old Christopher Lee vampires. — Denis O'Hare

Time flowed for Bela in the opposite direction. The day after yesterday, she sometimes said. Pronounced slightly differently, Bela's name, the name of a flower, was itself the word for a span of time, a portion of the day. Shakal bela meant morning; bikel bela, afternoon. Ratrir bela was night. Bela's yesterday was a receptacle for anything her mind stored. Any experience or impression that had come before. Her memory was brief, its contents limited. Lacking chronology, randomly rearranged. — Jhumpa Lahiri

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

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

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

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

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

I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people. — Bela Fleck

'The Count' wasn't a real stretch. I was doing pretty generic Bela Lugosi bad vampire on purpose. It was supposed to be lame. I didn't put fangs on; it was a guy who was just going through the motions. I drew on the widow's peak with eyebrow pencil and wore a turtleneck, not a tux. — Joe Flaherty

Women have a predestination to suffering. — Bela Lugosi

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

At four Bela was developing a memory. The word yesterday entered her vocabulary, though its meaning was elastic, synonymous with whatever was no longer the case. The past collapsed, in no particular order, contained by a single word. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It would be foolish to say that a gymnast above 5-2 could not be great. — Bela Karolyi

Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem. — Dominique Moceanu

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

I never drink... wine. — Bela Lugosi

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

Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag. — Bela Kiraly

Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means. — Bela Bartok

Luke snapped awake to see the gray-haired woman looking at him while adjusting her glasses. She smiled like he was something to eat. There aren't many good shots of you when Natalie was on your lap. She's either leaning over you, or you're at her neck like Bela Lugosi. Though there's one really good part at the end
— Ophelia London

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

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

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

As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate. — Bela Kun

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

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

aunt Bela would be most pleased." "Wait a second," I said. "You know Bela Kilgore?" The man in the fez smiled. "Oh, yes, Kidd — James Patterson

I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one until my grandfather gave me one, almost by mistake. He knew I was playing a little bit of guitar. He saw a banjo at a flea market and bought it. I took it home with me and just never put it down. I was fifteen. — Bela Fleck

Just like an animal, when you want to survive, you don't think anymore. — Bela Karolyi

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

When Deepa poured Bela some water from the urn that stood on a little stool, in the corner of the room, her grandmother reproached her.
Not that water. Give her the boiled water. She's not made to survive here. — Jhumpa Lahiri

In other words, learn your Scruggs's rolls before trying to play like Bela Fleck. — Tony Trischka

Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole history of the banjo, I feel really good about it, including the Earl Scruggs part. — Bela Fleck

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. — Bela Bartok

Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance. — Bela Karolyi

I never play without my cape. — 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

My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what matters. — Bela Karolyi

It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach. — Bela Bartok

In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones. — Bela Karolyi

War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities. — Bela Kiraly

What had Subhash told Bela, to keep her away? Nothing, probably. It was the just punishment for her crime. She understood now what it meant to walk away from her child. It had been her own act of killing. A connection she had severed, resulting in a death that applied only to the two of them. It was a crime worse than anything Udayan had committed. She had never written to Bela. Never dared reach out, to reassure her. What reassurance was hers to give? What she'd done could never be undone. Her silence, her absence, seemed decent in comparison. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I'm tired of being hunted all over. I can't go anywhere without criticism. — Bela Karolyi

The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory. — Bela Karolyi

The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics. — Dominique Moceanu

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