Lugosi Actor Quotes & Sayings

Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live. — David Binder

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

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

Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Boredom is a choice; something you visit upon yourself, and it is another of those self-defeating items that you can eliminate from your life. — Wayne Dyer

In education, change is the only constant. — Dale Vigil

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 sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. — George Orwell

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers. — Viola Davis

Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my hand, raise it to the light, rub my hand across it, disjoin it, put it back together again with a comma added, raising the pitch in the front part; when I rub the grain of it, comb the fur of it, re-assemble the bones of it, I am making something that carries with it the sound of a voice, the firmness of a hand. Maybe little more. — Donald Hall

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

Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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