If you are not serious, people will sense it.
BELA LUGOSIIf you are not serious, people will sense it.
BELA LUGOSIIt 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 LUGOSIIt took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
BELA LUGOSISupernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
BELA LUGOSIA 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 LUGOSIEvery 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 LUGOSIActors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
BELA LUGOSICircumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
BELA LUGOSIIt 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 LUGOSIIn the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
BELA LUGOSIThe vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
BELA LUGOSII never play without my cape.
BELA LUGOSII’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
BELA LUGOSII enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
BELA LUGOSII studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
BELA LUGOSIEvery actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
BELA LUGOSI