Top 64 Lugosi's Quotes
#1. For me, hearing the term 'apply yourself' was like a crucifix to Bella Lugosi's Dracula. 'Ahhh, it burns!'
James Hunter
#2. 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
#3. 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
#5. Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.
Bela Lugosi
#6. Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. Bela Lugosi.
Bela Lugosi
#8. 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
#9. Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
Bela Lugosi
#10. If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
Bela Lugosi
#11. The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
Bela Lugosi
#12. 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
#13. I've been using narcotics for 20 years.
Bela Lugosi
#15. I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
Bela Lugosi
#16. If you are not serious, people will sense it.
Bela Lugosi
#18. I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
Bela Lugosi
#19. I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
Bela Lugosi
#21. Life is a learned behavior. We should learn it well.
Las Lugosi
#22. Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
Bela Lugosi
#23. '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
#24. Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
Bela Lugosi
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion.
Bela Lugosi
#29. To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
Bela Lugosi
#30. To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
Bela Lugosi
#31. 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
#32. I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
Bela Lugosi
#33. I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.
Bela Lugosi
#34. I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
Bela Lugosi
#35. The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
Bela Lugosi
#36. 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
#37. The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.
Bela Lugosi
#38. It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
Bela Lugosi
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
Bela Lugosi
#42. That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
Bela Lugosi
#43. This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. You are wasting my time.
Bela Lugosi
#45. You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
Bela Lugosi
#46. In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
Bela Lugosi
#47. I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
Bela Lugosi
#48. In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.
Bela Lugosi
#49. 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
#50. Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
Bela Lugosi
#52. 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
#53. Women have a predestination to suffering.
Bela Lugosi
#54. I will not be tortured, I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
Bela Lugosi
#55. Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
Bela Lugosi
#56. People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties ... they live like ants.
Bela Lugosi
#57. The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
Bela Lugosi
#58. In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
Bela Lugosi
#59. When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
Bela Lugosi
#60. 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
#62. The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
Bela Lugosi
#63. 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
#64. 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
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