black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

Bela Lugosi

That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
BELA LUGOSI

Different Evil Thinking
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
BELA LUGOSI

Ignorance Lying Mean
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

Actor Performance Stage
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSI

Freak Reduce Stand
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

Play Roles Years
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
BELA LUGOSI

Myself Tears Torture
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
BELA LUGOSI

Black Cat Cat
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
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSI

Company Film Red
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
BELA LUGOSI

Take Winning Women
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

Cry Horror Over
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
BELA LUGOSI

Betrayed Enemy Imagination
The stage is near and dear to me.
BELA LUGOSI

Dear Near Stage
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
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
BELA LUGOSI

Life People Thinking
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
BELA LUGOSI

Actor Pleasure Years

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bela Lugosi Quotes