Bela Lugosi Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Bela Lugosi Quotes and Sayings


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    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 2
    Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 5
    Death, the final, triumphant lover. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 6
    Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 7
    I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 8
    I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 9
    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 | Refcard PDF
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    I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 11
    I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 12
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 13
    I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo? Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 14
    I never play without my cape. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 15
    I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
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    I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
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    I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 18
    I'll take any story if it's good. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 19
    I've been using narcotics for 20 years. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 20
    If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 21
    If you are not serious, people will sense it. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 22
    In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 23
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 24
    In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 25
    In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 26
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 27
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 28
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 29
    It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 30
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 31
    Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 32
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 33
    My close-up was magnificent! Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 34
    Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 35
    People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 36
    The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
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    The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 38
    The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 39
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 40
    The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 41
    The stage is near and dear to me. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 42
    The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 43
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 44
    To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 45
    To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 46
    When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 47
    Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 48
    Women have a predestination to suffering. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF
  • 49
    You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek. Bela Lugosi | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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