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

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

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

For me, hearing the term 'apply yourself' was like a crucifix to Bella Lugosi's Dracula. 'Ahhh, it burns!' — James Hunter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I bid you ... Welcome — Dracula Bela Lugosi 1931

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

Good evening and good night. — Dracula Bela Lugosi 1931

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

No one likes to be typecast or stereotyped, especially actors. But who would know Esther Williams without a swimming pool, Bela Lugosi without a cape, or Elvis Presley without his guitar. Would we even care? — Susan Marg

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

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

As a kid, I had a Beatles poster and a Bela Lugosi as Dracula poster, so both worlds always appealed to me. Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to be aggressive. You can't tiptoe around. It has to be incredibly focused dramatically - no time for second thoughts. — Christopher Young

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

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

Life is a learned behavior. We should learn it well. — Las 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

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

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

'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

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

I never play without my cape. — Bela Lugosi

The stage is near and dear to me. — 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

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

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

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