Bela Lugosi Quotes

"Women have a predestination to suffering."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Women, Suffering)

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

"When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Company, Film)

"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
(Related: Actor, Existence, Play, School)

"To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Challenge)

"I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Emotion)

"To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Woman)

"I've been using narcotics for 20 years."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Years)

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

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

"I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Play, Supernatural)

"I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Years)

"I never play without my cape."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Play)

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

"If you are not serious, people will sense it."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: People, Sense, Will)

"I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Tomorrow)

"In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Decision, Acting, America, Profession)

"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
(Related: Truth, People, Chance, Deep, Pretty)

"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Work, Actor, Pleasure, Profession, Years)

"I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Food, Friends, Old)

"Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Actor)

"Death, the final, triumphant lover."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Death)

"Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Life, People, Circumstances, Personality)

"Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Language, Speech)

"Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Actors, Managers, State)

"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
(Related: Time, Knowledge, Performance, Actor, Will)

"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

"My close-up was magnificent!"
- Bela Lugosi

"The stage is near and dear to me."
- Bela Lugosi

"The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Thinking)

"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 love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Love, Beginning, Will)

"The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Actors, Class, Community, Ignorance, Lies)

"The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Performance, Actor)

"If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Imagination, Enemy)

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

"The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Change, Success, Romantic)

"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
(Related: Heart, Bed, Body, Cure)

"Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Enthusiasm, Acting)

"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
(Related: People, Cure, Friends, Hell)

"It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Work, Hard work, Years)

"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
(Related: Film, Play, Years)

"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
(Related: Love, Women, Horror)

"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
(Related: Women, Blood, Horror, Race, Suffering)

"In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Actor, Expression)

"In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Open, Theories)

"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
(Related: Acting, Career, Law, Medicine, Philosophy)

"People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: People, Ants)