black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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

Fever Role Vampire
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
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
BELA LUGOSI

Character Ghouls Romantic Love
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
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

Hell People Umpires
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
BELA LUGOSI

Dead Glorious Dies
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
BELA LUGOSI

Ghouls might Vampires
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
BELA LUGOSI

Actors Giving Performance
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
BELA LUGOSI

Hard Roles Work Years
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
BELA LUGOSI

Believe People Play
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSI

Company Film Red
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
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
BELA LUGOSI

Any Good Stories Take
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
BELA LUGOSI

Actors Capitalist States
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
BELA LUGOSI

Emotion Human Thinking
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSI

Freak Reduce Stand
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
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
BELA LUGOSI

Black Cat Cat
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
BELA LUGOSI

Myself Tears Torture
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

Stage Technique Thousand
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
BELA LUGOSI

People Serious Seriousness
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
BELA LUGOSI

Ignorance Lying Mean
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
BELA LUGOSI

Done Roles Stage
I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.
BELA LUGOSI

Narcotics Twenty Year Years
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
BELA LUGOSI

Take Winning Women
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
BELA LUGOSI

Challenges Compelling Offer
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
BELA LUGOSI

Life People Thinking

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bela Lugosi Quotes