Zitat des Tages von Bela Lugosi:
I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
I never play without my cape.
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.
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
The stage is near and dear to me.
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
Women have a predestination to suffering.
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.
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.
I'll take any story if it's good.
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
My close-up was magnificent!
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion.
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.