Bela Lugosi Quotes:- Bela Lugosi (October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956) was a Hungarian–American actor, best remembered for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 horror classic Dracula, Ygor in Son of Frankenstein (1939) and his roles in many other horror films from 1931 through 1956.
Inspirational Bela Lugosi Quotes
“If you are not serious, people will sense it.”
Bela Lugosi
“I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.”
Bela Lugosi
“To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.”
Bela Lugosi
“I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.”
Bela Lugosi
“Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.”
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
“To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.”
Bela Lugosi
“The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.”
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
“In the studio, the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.”
Bela Lugosi
“Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.”
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
30+ Famous Quotes by Bela Lugosi
“In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.”
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 my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.”
Bela Lugosi
“I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion.”
Bela Lugosi
“Death, the final, triumphant lover.”
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
“People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.”
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
“The love bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.”
Bela Lugosi
“When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.”
Bela Lugosi
“You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.”
Bela Lugosi
“Without movie parts, I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.”
Bela Lugosi
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“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
“Women have a predestination to suffering.”
Bela Lugosi
“Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was cataloged as a heavy.”
Bela Lugosi
“My close-up was magnificent!”
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
“In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.”
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
“I never play without my cape.”
Bela Lugosi
“Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.”
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
“I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to 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
“The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.”
Bela Lugosi
Top 10 Quotes by Bela Lugosi
“I’ll take any story if it’s good.”
Bela Lugosi
“It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.”
Bela Lugosi
“The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.”
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 look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?”
Bela Lugosi
“The stage is near and dear to me.”
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
“Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.”
Bela Lugosi
“Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.”
Bela Lugosi
“I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.”
Bela Lugosi
