If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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.
More Bela Lugosi Quotes
-
-
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 -
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
BELA LUGOSI -
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
BELA LUGOSI -
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
BELA LUGOSI -
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 -
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
BELA LUGOSI -
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
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 -
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
BELA LUGOSI -
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSI -
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
BELA LUGOSI -
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 -
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
BELA LUGOSI -
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
BELA LUGOSI -
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
BELA LUGOSI