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Bela Lugosi
Austrian
Actor
About the author
You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#People
#Play
#Tongue
#Horror
Women have a predestination to suffering.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Women
#Suffering
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Film
#Company
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,
Austrian
Actor
#Play
#School
#Actor
#Existence
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Challenge
I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Emotion
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Woman
I've been using narcotics for 20 years.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Years
I'll take any story if it's good.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Play
#Supernatural
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Years
I never play without my cape.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Play
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#People
#Will
#Sense
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Tomorrow
In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Acting
#America
#Decision
#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,
Austrian
Actor
#People
#Chance
#Pretty
#Truth
#Deep
I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Work
#Years
#Pleasure
#Actor
#Profession
I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Food
#Friends
#Old
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Actor
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Death
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#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,
Austrian
Actor
#Language
#Speech
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#State
#Actors
#Managers
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,
Austrian
Actor
#Time
#Will
#Knowledge
#Actor
#Performance
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,
Austrian
Actor
My close-up was magnificent!
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
The stage is near and dear to me.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#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,
Austrian
Actor
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Love
#Will
#Beginning
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Ignorance
#Community
#Lies
#Class
#Actors
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Actor
#Performance
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Enemy
#Imagination
Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Success
#Change
#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,
Austrian
Actor
#Heart
#Body
#Cure
#Bed
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Acting
#Enthusiasm
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,
Austrian
Actor
#People
#Friends
#Hell
#Cure
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Work
#Years
#Hard work
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,
Austrian
Actor
#Film
#Years
#Play
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,
Austrian
Actor
#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,
Austrian
Actor
#Race
#Women
#Suffering
#Horror
#Blood
In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#Expression
#Actor
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#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,
Austrian
Actor
#Acting
#Career
#Law
#Medicine
#Philosophy
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
Bela Lugosi,
Austrian
Actor
#People
#Ants