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 LUGOSIThere was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
-
-
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
BELA LUGOSI -
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 -
I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
BELA LUGOSI -
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
BELA LUGOSI -
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 -
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
BELA LUGOSI -
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
BELA LUGOSI -
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 -
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSI -
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSI -
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
BELA LUGOSI -
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
BELA LUGOSI -
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
BELA LUGOSI -
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
BELA LUGOSI -
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
BELA LUGOSI






