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

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

Career Law Philosophy
Women have a predestination to suffering.
BELA LUGOSI

Predestination Suffering Women
I never play without my cape.
BELA LUGOSI

Capes never Play
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
BELA LUGOSI

Freak Reduce Stand
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
BELA LUGOSI

Director Expression Moving
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
BELA LUGOSI

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

Different Evil Thinking
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
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
BELA LUGOSI

People Serious Seriousness
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
BELA LUGOSI

Challenges Compelling Offer
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
BELA LUGOSI

Dead Glorious Dies
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
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
BELA LUGOSI

Agony Blood Race
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
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
BELA LUGOSI

Done Roles Stage
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
BELA LUGOSI

heavy Language Speech

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