Béla Lugosi movie quotes

“To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.”
Béla Lugosi

“- Ygor: You cannot take my friend away from me. He's all that I have. Nothing else. You're going to make him your friend and I'll be alone.
- Ludwig Frankenstein: It will be as I say or he must be destroyed.”

Béla Lugosi - Ygor
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Dr. Frankenstein

“In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.”
Béla Lugosi

“I never drink... wine.”
Béla Lugosi

“To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.”
Béla Lugosi

“If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.”
Béla Lugosi

“Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.”
Béla Lugosi

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

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

“The Spirit of Evil is trying to enter this room, but have no fear, the fires of death will guard us.”
Béla Lugosi - Prince Saliano

“This is place of the dead. We're all dead here.”
Béla Lugosi - Ygor

“Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.”

Béla Lugosi - Dracula

“- Count Dracula: It would be well for you to return to your own country.
- Van Helsing: I prefer to remain and protect those whom you would destroy.
- Count Dracula: You are too late. My blood now flows through her veins. She will live through the centuries to come, as I have lived.”

Béla Lugosi - Dracula
Edward Van Sloan - Abraham Van Helsing

“- Ygor: You're going to help him Doctor? You are giving him life?
- Ludwig Frankenstein: Yes but not for the purposes that you think Ygor. I'm giving him strength so that an operation may be successful.
- Ygor: An operation?
- Ludwig Frankenstein: Yes. I'm giving him another brain.”
Béla Lugosi - Ygor
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Dr. Frankenstein

“Better death... than a life like this.”
Béla Lugosi - Ygor

“For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you're a wise man, Van Helsing.”
Béla Lugosi - Dracula

“- Ygor: You can make us one. We'll be together always. My brain and his body. Together.
- Ludwig Frankenstein: You're a cunning fellow Ygor. Do you think I would put your sly and sinister brain into the body of a giant? That would be a monster indeed. You will do as I tell you or I will not be responsible for the consequences.”

Béla Lugosi - Ygor
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Dr. Frankenstein

“Presently I shall assume a state of trance, in which the outer mind merges with the astral portion of the human ego.”
Béla Lugosi - Prince Saliano

“How can the Bolshevik cause gain respect among the Muslims if your three representatives get so drunk that they throw a carpet out of their hotel window and complain to the management that it didn't fly?”

Béla Lugosi - Comissar Razinin

“- Ygor: Whose brain?
- Ludwig Frankenstein: Kettering. A man of character and learning. The monster will cease to be an evil influence and become everything that is good.”

Béla Lugosi - Ygor
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Dr. Frankenstein

“Your will is strong, Van Helsing.”

Béla Lugosi - Dracula

“- Count Dracula: To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious!
- Mina: Why, Count Dracula?
- Count Dracula: There are far worse things awaiting men than death.”
Béla Lugosi - Dracula
Helen Chandler - Mina Murray

“The lightning. It is good for you! Your father was Frankenstein, but your mother was the lightning!”

Béla Lugosi - Ygor

“- Count Dracula: This is very old wine. I hope you will like it.
- Renfield: Aren't you drinking?
- Count Dracula: I never drink... wine.”
Béla Lugosi - Dracula
Dwight Frye - Renfield