Bela Lugosi Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Thinking #People #Ants

“Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Actors #States #Capitalist

“Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Mad #Actors #Plumber

“I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Ghouls #Vampire #Might

“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

#Heart #People #Mind

“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

#School #Ghouls #Play

“To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Winning

“In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Window #Theory

“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

#Horror #Cry #Over It

“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

#Vampire #Roles #Fever

“It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Hard Work #Years #Roles

“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

#Years #Play #Roles

“If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Imagination #Enemy #Betrayed

“I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Art #Years #Degrees

“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

#Technique #Stage #Thousand

“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

#Ambition #Character #Roles

“The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Lying #Ignorance #Mean

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

#Mirrors #Looks

“Women have a predestination to suffering.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Suffering #Predestination

“I've been using narcotics for 20 years.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Years

“That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Thinking #Evil #Different

“Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. Bela Lugosi.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Hollywood #Amusement #Type

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

#Roles #Done #Stage

“Death, the final, triumphant lover.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Finals #Lovers #Triumphant

“Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Believe #People #Personality

“The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Giving #Actors #Performances

“I never play without my cape.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Play #Capes

“The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Thinking #Way

“I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.”
-- Bela Lugosi

#Play #Interesting #Roles

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

#Stories