Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó, better known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian-American actor, famous for portraying Count Dracula in the original 1931 film and for his roles in various other horror films...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth20 October 1882
CityLugoj, Romania
CountryAustria
Bela Lugosi quotes about
age dimes my-friends
I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
people hell cures
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.
mad actors plumber
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
ghouls vampire might
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.
ambition character roles
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.
winning
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
window theory ifs
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
blood agony race
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.
thinking people ants
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
technique stage thousand
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.
amusement hollywood type
Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. Bela Lugosi.
irresistible bites
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
roles done stage
Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.