Quotes by Bela Lugosi

About Bela Lugosi:

Béla Ferenc Dezs? Blaskó was a Hungarian-American actor, famous for portraying Count Dracula in the original 1931 film and for his roles in various other horror films.
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

Bela Lugosi

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

Bela Lugosi

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

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

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Bela Lugosi

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

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

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.

Bela Lugosi

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

Bela Lugosi

I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion.

Bela Lugosi

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

Bela Lugosi

The stage is near and dear to me.

Bela Lugosi

The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.

Bela Lugosi

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

Bela Lugosi

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

Bela Lugosi

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

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

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

Bela Lugosi

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

Bela Lugosi

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.

Bela Lugosi

Author Bio

  • NameBela Lugosi
  • DescriptionHungarian actor
  • BornOctober 20, 1882
  • DiedAugust 16, 1956
  • CountryHungary; United States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Actor