Top 100 Quotes About Bela
#1. Dr. Grant was right, the feeling no longer swallows her. Bela lives on its periphery, she takes it in at a distance. The way her grandmother, sitting on a terrace in Tollygunge, used to spend her days overlooking a lowland, a pair of ponds.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#2. 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
#3. The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics.
Dominique Moceanu
#4. When Deepa poured Bela some water from the urn that stood on a little stool, in the corner of the room, her grandmother reproached her.
Not that water. Give her the boiled water. She's not made to survive here.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#5. At four Bela was developing a memory. The word yesterday entered her vocabulary, though its meaning was elastic, synonymous with whatever was no longer the case. The past collapsed, in no particular order, contained by a single word.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#6. Then again, how could he expect Bela to be interested in marriage, given the example he and Gauri had given? They were a family of solitaries. They had collided and dispersed. This was her legacy. If nothing else, she had inherited that impulse from them.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. Bela Lugosi.
Bela Lugosi
#10. Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.
Dominique Moceanu
#11. aunt Bela would be most pleased." "Wait a second," I said. "You know Bela Kilgore?" The man in the fez smiled. "Oh, yes, Kidd
James Patterson
#12. According to Bela Szabados, it can be dangerous to ignore philosophers' personalities because philosophizing is a personal interpretation of truth.
Skye Cleary
#13. In other words, learn your Scruggs's rolls before trying to play like Bela Fleck.
Tony Trischka
#14. Everything in Bela's life has been a reaction. I am who I am, she would say, I live as I do because of you.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#15. '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
#16. 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
#17. But inside loss there can be gain, too,like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#18. Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.
Bela Fleck
#19. Evolutionary learning calls upon our creative potentials as it empowers us to envision images of the future and bring those images to life by design.
Bela H. Banathy
#20. It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.
Bela Kun
#21. I do not think that I am a person who cannot be trusted.
Bela Kun
#22. I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.
Bela Fleck
#23. I doubt anybody would have pushed me [on the music]. When I was at Sony nobody ever gave me any creative suggestions on the music.
Bela Fleck
#24. Writing is like making jewelry -jeweler doesn't make a diamond, he polishes and cuts it, but the gem is from God.
Bela Abel
#25. The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
Bela Lugosi
#26. They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true.
Bela Fleck
#27. My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.
Bela Kun
#28. 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
#29. The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.
Bela Lugosi
#30. It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
Bela Lugosi
#31. In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
Bela Bartok
#32. 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
#33. Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
Bela Lugosi
#34. That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
Bela Lugosi
#35. This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. You are wasting my time.
Bela Lugosi
#36. The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.
Bela Karolyi
#37. There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.
Bela Fleck
#38. This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.
Bela Karolyi
#40. You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
Bela Lugosi
#41. And then Earl Scruggs comes along and transforms the banjo into a virtuosic modern instrument. For the first time, the Southern banjo style becomes the identity of the banjo, and everything from before is wiped off of people's consciousness by the power of that explosion.
Bela Fleck
#42. In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
Bela Lugosi
#43. I still love to find and develop the young athletes in traditional ways. I like to watch the physical and mental growth. That has always been very exciting.
Bela Karolyi
#44. What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination.
Bela Karolyi
#45. I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
Bela Lugosi
#46. In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.
Bela Lugosi
#47. I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.
Bela Karolyi
#48. What is a better way to prove that your methods work than by winning? I have proved that my methods work.
Bela Karolyi
#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. I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
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. I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.
Bela Fleck
#57. Competitions are for horses, not artists.
Bela Bartok
#58. People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties ... they live like ants.
Bela Lugosi
#59. My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what matters.
Bela Karolyi
#60. The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
Bela Lugosi
#61. So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.
Bela Fleck
#62. In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
Bela Lugosi
#63. When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
Bela Lugosi
#65. With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.
Bela Bartok
#66. What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.
Bela Karolyi
#67. Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag.
Bela Kiraly
#68. The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
Bela Lugosi
#69. 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
#70. A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.
Bela Karolyi
#71. As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.
Bela Kun
#72. The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.
Bela Karolyi
#73. My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.
Bela Fleck
#74. It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.
Bela Bartok
#75. I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious.
Bela Karolyi
#76. Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
Bela Lugosi
#77. Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.
Bela Karolyi
#78. I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
Bela Lugosi
#80. If you are not serious, people will sense it.
Bela Lugosi
#81. I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.
Bela Karolyi
#82. His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct ... these are all echoes ... of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.
Bela Bartok
#83. I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
Bela Lugosi
#85. I've been using narcotics for 20 years.
Bela Lugosi
#86. I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.
Bela Fleck
#87. War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities.
Bela Kiraly
#88. 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
#89. I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.
Bela Karolyi
#90. The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
Bela Lugosi
#91. If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
Bela Lugosi
#92. When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!
Bela Fleck
#93. Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
Bela Lugosi
#94. 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
#95. In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.
Bela Karolyi
#97. By the time I had complete my 22nd year, I was a new man - an atheist.
Bela Bartok
#98. Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.
Bela Lugosi
#99. Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole history of the banjo, I feel really good about it, including the Earl Scruggs part.
Bela Fleck
