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Bela LugosiQuotes

Bela Lugosi
Birthday
October 17th, 1882
From
Lugos, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary [now Lugoj, Timis County, Romania]
Actor

Spooks Run Wild - Haunting Confrontation of Past and Present

Apparition: So, you couldn't stay away, could you? The criminal always returns to the scene of the crime.
Nardo: Who... who are you?
Apparition: You don't remember me, but twenty years ago in this very house I was a livin being. I had flesh on my bones, blood flowed through my veins, but you... you... you scared the health out of me.
Nardo: I was never in this house until tonight. You have made a mistake!
Apparition: It is YOU who has made the mistake, my friend. For years you have wantonly taken the lives of millions; so, tonight I am going to take yours.

Night of Terror - Urgent Plea Amidst Desperation

Mary Rinehart: Oh! Call a doctor. Call a doctor!
Degar: It is too late!

Night of Terror - Confrontation with Hidden Truths

Martin the Chauffeur: I was right! When I said they was... undertakers!
Degar: Remember... you have seen... NOTHING!

Night of Terror - A Conversation About Unwanted Offerings

Degar: I heard you, walking up and down, master. Thought you might want something.
Richard Rinehart: No, I don't want anything.
Degar: Perhaps you'd like the evening paper?
Richard Rinehart: No, there's nothing in the papers.

Night of Terror - Inheritance and Betrayal Among Heirs

Sika: Why should the master have left his brother anything? He never cared for him; never came to see him while he was alive.
Degar: Perhaps he will be the first of the heirs to die.
Sika: According to the master's will, the rest of us will inherit his share.
Degar: Nothing but MURDER!

The Invisible Ray - Confrontation Over Survival Among Thieves

Dr. Felix Benet: We expected you.
Dr. Janos Rukh: I knew that. Five thieves. Two are gone, three are left.
Dr. Felix Benet: Do you intend to kill us all?
Dr. Felix Benet: I felt it was better to let things alone when you were first poisoned. I warned you about your brain!
Dr. Janos Rukh: It began to affect my brain almost immediately. I could feel it coming, crawling through the cells.
Dr. Felix Benet: Aren't there ever moments when you think as you used to think, when you were human?
Dr. Janos Rukh: Not often, now, not often.
Dr. Felix Benet: And because of that, we must die.
Dr. Janos Rukh: No, because you are thieves. Five thieves, all thieves! It will be easiest just to shake hands. It will all be over in a second.

The Invisible Ray - A Meeting of Rival Scientists

Dr. Janos Rukh: Dr. Benet, we meet at last.
Dr. Felix Benet: But we already know each other.
Dr. Janos Rukh: True. You've come to see me fail, but you'll be disappointed.
Dr. Felix Benet: I have come to see that Sir Francis isn't deceived.
Dr. Janos Rukh: Your doubts are very flattering.
Dr. Felix Benet: They are mutual. We have never seen eye to eye.
Dr. Janos Rukh: That is because I've always looked two hundred years ahead of your theories.

The Invisible Ray - Ethics of Exposing Danger to Others

Ronald Drake: [about Benet's plan to invite unwitting scientists to a lecture intended as a trap for Rukh] Do you think it's fair to expose them to the danger?
Dr. Felix Benet: There are only two people he wants to destroy. Two, or perhaps... three.

The Invisible Ray - City at the Mercy of Destruction

Dr. Felix Benet: I believe that this city is at the mercy of a madman whose body is an engine of destruction.

The Invisible Ray - Invisible Evidence in Bright Light

Dr. Felix Benet: You observe: those finger marks cannot be seen in the light!

The Corpse Vanishes - A Mother's Despair and a Doctor's Cruelty

Fagah: Why do you beat my son so hard?
Dr. Lorenz: Because he's at best an animal, and someday I shall have to destroy him.
Fagah: My poor son!... Why was he ever born?

The Corpse Vanishes - A Memorable Addition to the Family

Countess Lorenz: She's a most unusual type. Such fascinating eyes.
Dr. Lorenz: She'll make a charming addition to our family.
Countess Lorenz: June Twentieth...
Dr. Lorenz: A date we shall not forget.

The Corpse Vanishes - A Conversation About Comfort and Death

Patricia Hunter: Oh, professor, do you also make a habit of collecting coffins?
Dr. Lorenz: Why yes, in a manner of speaking. I find a coffin much more comfortable than a bed. Many people do so, my dear. Is it so strange, that I accept one while waiting for eternal rest?

The Corpse Vanishes - Beauty and Acceptance in Love

Countess Lorenz: Can you bear to look at me now?
Dr. Lorenz: Of course. You are beautiful. And I shall always keep you that way.

The Corpse Vanishes - Unexpected Arrival and Introductions Among Friends

Dr. Foster: Good evening, Professor Lorenz, Countess. May I present Miss Patricia Hunter?
Patricia Hunter: How do you do?
Dr. Lorenz: We have been expecting you.
Patricia Hunter: So you found my bag in your truck?
Dr. Lorenz: Yes. There it is.
Dr. Foster: Miss Hunter's a newspaperwoman.
Patricia Hunter: I came here hoping you might grant me an interview.
Dr. Lorenz: An interview? About what?
Countess Lorenz: No one asked you to come here. You're not welcome!
Dr. Loren: Control yourself, my dear! I'm sure Miss Hunter meant no harm. Please forgive my wife, she is not well. Come, you had better retire.
Patricia Hunter: [to Foster] So that's what you call being eccentric. Well I have another name for it.

The Corpse Vanishes - The Mind's Tricks in Dreams

Dr. Lorenz: You see, our dreams, our minds play strange tricks on us sometimes!

The Devil Bat - Control Over Fate: A Debate

Henry Morton: Dr. Carruthers, you can't pretend that you can control man's fate.
Dr. Paul Carruthers: I've already proven it, three times.

The Devil Bat - A Humorous Exchange About Health Concerns

One-Shot McGuire: I'm not feeling too hot, would you take my temperature?
Dr. Paul Carruthers: You are perfectly alright.
One-Shot McGuire: Oh yeah? Well you should see my tongue, it looks just like a squirrel's tail!

The Devil Bat - Dreams and the Burden of Wealth

Henry Morton: You're a dreamer, Doc. Too much money is bad for dreamers.
Dr. Paul Carruthers: So you tried to pay me in flattery, telling me that I'm a dreamer. Well... I do dream - dreams that you would never guess.

Chandu the Magician - Desire for Power and Threat of Destruction

Princess Nadji: So, unless my people will join in making you a modern pharaoh, you will annihilate them?
Roxor: Pharaoh? I shall be greater than any pharaoh! Civilization and all its works shall be destroyed! Men shall return to savagery following only one supreme intelligence... me!

Chandu the Magician - Power and Consequences in Service

Roxor: [to Abdullah] If Nadji opposes me, and you serve me well, there shall be a new slave in your harem.

The Return of the Vampire - Struggle for Power and Freedom

Armand Tesla: [Offscreen, as Andreas walks in the woods] Andreas! Andreas!
Andreas Obry: [Suddenly seeing Tesla] You! You have no power over me! That was ended many years ago! I'm no longer your slave! Dr. Ainsley has cleansed me of all the evil you forced upon me! You can't bring it back! You can't! I won't let you! I won't!
Armand Tesla: You're a fool, Andreas! A complete, utter fool! Your fate is to be what you are - as mine is to be what I am... your Master! Come here !
Andreas Obry: I won't!
Armand Tesla: [Commandingly] Look at me, Andreas! Look at me! Andreas, come here!
Andreas Obry: Master, you have returned.

The Return of the Vampire - A Plea for Help Ignored

Andreas Obry: Help me, Master. I am hurt!
Armand Tesla: What is that to me?

The Return of the Vampire - A Warning Against Underestimating Power

Armand Tesla: You're a very brilliant woman, but a foolish one to pit your strength against mine!

The Return of the Vampire - A Search for a New Resting Place

Armand Tesla: Come Andreas. I must find a new resting place. There you will bring the coffin with my native soil... and then, Andreas, I have other plans!

Ghosts on the Loose - Facing Fears in the Echoes

Mugs: What's a matter wid you? Dat's just an echo.
Bruno: [a voice] Just an echo.
Mugs: See dat? What I tell ya? Dere's nuttin to be scared of.
Emil: [a second voice] That's what YOU think.

The Gorilla - Detectives Cause Commotion in the Background

Jack Marsden: Peters, what's all that commotion?
Peters: It sounds like our friends the detectives.

The Gorilla - Coincidental Absences and Unexpected Events

Jack Marsden: Why is it something always happens when YOU'RE not here?
Peters: Unfortunate coincidence, sir.

The Gorilla - Unexpected Reactions to a Scream

Peters: Did I hear somebody scream?
Kitty: Well, if you didn't, you oughta have your ears cleaned out!

Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla - Pressure to Deliver Laughter in Comedy

Dr. Zabor: And you better get some laughs this time, or you'll be collecting unemployment insurance.

Bride of the Monster - Desire for Power and Identity in Isolation

Prof. Strowski: Now I am here, sent to bring you home.
Dr. Eric Vornoff: Home? I have no home. Hunted, despised, living like an animal! The jungle is my home. And I will show the world that I can be its master! I will perfect my own race of people. A race of atomic supermen which will conquer the world!

Mark of the Vampire - A Theatrical Take on Vampirism

Count Mora: This vampire business, it has given me a great idea for a new act. Luna, in this new act I will be the vampire. Did you watch me? I gave all of me. I was greater than any real vampire.
Luna Mora: Sure, sure, but get off your makeup.
Fourth Vampire: Yes, and help me with some of this packing.

The Body Snatcher - A Dangerous Bargain for Silence

Joseph: I know you kill people to sell bodies.
Cabman John Gray: You say you came here of your own account. No-one sent you, no-one knows you're here?
Joseph: Give me money or I tell the police that you murder the subjects.
Cabman John Gray: Well, Joseph, you shall have money, why should you not? I don't suppose the great Dr MacFarlane is over lavish with his pay?
Joseph: No.

Murders in the Rue Morgue - The Pursuit of Human-Ape Connection

Dr. Mirakle: My life is consecrated to great experiment. I tell you I will prove your kinship with the ape. Eric's blood will be mixed with the blood of man!

Murders in the Rue Morgue - The Flame of Truth and Heresy

Dr. Mirakle: Heresy? Do they still burn men for heresy? Then burn me monsieur, light the fire! Do you think your little candle will outshine the flame of truth?

The Raven - A Doctor's Defiance of Professional Duty

Judge Thatcher: I'll pay you any amount of money, Dr. Vollin.
Dr. Richard Vollin: Money means nothing to me.
Judge Thatcher: But someone is dying! your obligation as a member of the medical profession...
Dr. Richard Vollin: I respect no obligation. I am a law unto himself!
Judge Thatcher: But you have no human feeling? My daughter is dying!
Dr. Richard Vollin: Death hasn't the same significance for me as it has for you.

The Raven - Haunted by Jean's Presence in My Mind

Dr. Richard Vollin: Jean torments me. She has come into my life! Into my brain!

The Raven - Claim of Sanity by Dr. Richard Vollin

Dr. Richard Vollin: I am the sanest man who ever lived!

The Raven - Avenge of Poe by Dr. Richard Vollin

Dr. Richard Vollin: Poe, you are avenged!

The Raven - Anticipation of Sweet Revenge

Dr. Richard Vollin: Torture waiting... waiting. It will be sweet, Judge Thatcher!

The Raven - Harnessing Hate from Monstrous Ugliness

Dr. Richard Vollin: Your monstrous ugliness breeds monstrous hatred. Good! I can use your hate.

Voodoo Man - Desire for Life and Control

Stella Saunders: What do you want with me?
Dr. Richard Marlowe: Your will to live! Your mind!

Voodoo Man - A Conversation About Loss and Assistance

Dr. Richard Marlowe: My wife...this young lady is going to help you.
Stella Saunders: Is your wife ill?
Dr. Richard Marlowe: She's dead.

The Black Cat - A Reflection on the Nature of Games

Dr. Vitus Werdegast: It has been a good game.

The Black Cat - The Red Switch and Its Consequences

Dr. Vitus Werdegast: It's the red switch, isn't it Hjalmar? The red switch ignites the dynamite. (He activates one of the large switches.) Five minutes and Marmaros, you and I, and your rotten cult will be no more...

The Black Cat - Questioning Mortality and Suffering

Dr. Vitus Werdegast: [to Poelzig] How does it feel to hang on your own embalming rack, Hjalmar?

The Black Cat - Threat of Slow Torture

Dr. Vitus Werdegast: [to Poelzig] Do you know what I am going to do to you now? No? Did you ever see an animal skinned, Hjalmar? Ha, ha, ha. That's what I'm going to do to you now — fare the skin from your body...slowly...bit by bit!

The Black Cat - Caution in a Dangerous Situation

Dr. Vitus Werdegast: [to Thamal] We must bide our time until others aren't involved. This place is so undermined with dynamite that the slightest mistake by one of us would cause the destruction of all. Until I tell you different, you are his servant, not mine.

The Black Cat - The Uncertainty of Superstition and Reality

Dr. Vitus Werdegast: Superstitious, perhaps... Baloney, perhaps not. There are many things under the sun.

The Black Cat - Reflections on Life and Death

Dr. Vitus Werdegast: [to Peter, about Poelzig's house] It is indeed hard to describe. It's hard to describe his life — or death. It may well be an atmosphere of death. This place was built upon the ruins of the same Ft. Marmorus that our unfortunate friend, the driver, described so vividly. Herr Poelzig commanded Marmorus during the last years of the war. He is perhaps sentimental about this spot.

The Black Cat - A Return to Darkness and Betrayal

Dr. Vitus Werdegast: [to Poelzig; laughs hideously] You sold Marmorus to the Russians. You scurried away in the night and left us to die. Is it to be wondered that you should choose this place to build your house? A masterpiece of construction built upon the ruins of the masterpiece of destruction — a masterpiece of murder. The murderer of 10,000 men returns to the place of his crime. Those who died were fortunate. I was taken prisoner at Kurgaal. Kurgaal, where the soul is killed, slowly. Fifteen years I've rotted in the darkness. But not to kill you, but to kill your soul — slowly. Where is my wife, Karen, and my daughter?

The Black Cat - A Long-Awaited Reunion

Dr. Vitus Werdegast: It has been a long time Hjalmar. The years have been kind to you.

The Black Cat - A Return After Many Years Away

Dr. Vitus Werdegast: [to Peter, about his stroking Joan's hair while she sleeps] I beg your indulgence my friend. Eighteen years ago, I left a girl so like your lovely wife to go to war...She was my wife. Have you ever heard of Kurgaal? It is a prison below Amsk...Many men have gone there. Few have returned. I have returned. After fifteen years, I have returned.

The Black Cat - Fear as a preferable state

Dr. Vitus Werdegast: After all, better to be frightened than to be crushed.

The Ghost of Frankenstein - A New Brain for the Creature

Dr. 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?
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein: Yes. I'm giving him another brain. You must explain to him when he becomes conscious. *You* must make him understand.
Ygor: Whose brain?
Doctor Bohmer: Kettering?
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein: Yes, Kettering. A man of character and learning. The monster will cease to be an evil influence and become everything that is good.
Ygor: No. No, no. 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.
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein: It will be as I say or he must be destroyed.
Ygor: [laughs] He cannot be destroyed.
Doctor Bohmer: There is one way. By dissection.
Ygor: No not that. Doctor, Ygor's body is no good. His neck is broken, crippled, and distorted. Lame and sick from the bullets your brother fired into me. You can put my brain in his body.
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein: Your brain?
Ygor: You can make us one. We'll be together always. My brain and his body. Together.
Dr. 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.

The Ghost of Frankenstein - The Burden of a Dark Legacy

Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein: Ever since the day my father put life into that creature, it has been a curse. The terrible consequences of his creation killed my father, drove my brother into exile. The monster shall not ruin my life. I'm happy here. I have a lovely daughter, friends. They know nothing of all this.
Ygor: You wouldn't like to spoil that, doctor. Would you? You wouldn't want me to tell them that you're the son of the Frankenstein that created him, that your brother made the thing live after it had been dead for years. Do you want me to tell them, Frankenstein?
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein: No! No.
Ygor: All right. Then you'll make the police to hand him over to you.
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein: Yes. I could do that.
Ygor: And you will do it, Frankenstein.

The Ghost of Frankenstein - Confrontation Over the Monster's Fate

Ygor: How does it feel to face a man you thought your brother killed, doctor?
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein: What do you want?
Ygor: The monster is with me. He's the one in the police station, but he won't be there for long. You will bring him here.
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein: The law must take its course.
Ygor: Law! What can the law do to him?

The Ghost of Frankenstein - Embracing Heritage: Lightning and Legacy

Ygor: [after the monster is struck by lightning] The lightning. It is good for you! Your father was Frankenstein, but your mother was the lightning!

The Ghost of Frankenstein - A Choice Between Death and Life

Ygor: Better death... than a life like this.

Glen or Glenda - Exploring Diverse Outcomes and Unfortunate Realities

Alton: Therefore two entirely different cases, handled in two entirely different ways have a happy ending.
Warren: Yeah, those two. But what of the hundreds of other less fortunate Glens, the world over?
Scientist: Yes. But what of the others, less fortunate Glens, the world over? Oh, snips and snails and puppy dog tails.

Glen or Glenda - The Complexity of Storytelling and Understanding

Warren: I'd like to hear the story to the fullest.
Alton: Only the infinity of the depths of a man's mind can really tell the story.
Scientist: Dr. Alton. A young man who is...speaks the words of the all-wise. No one can really tell the story. Mistakes are made. But there is no mistaking the thoughts in a man's mind. The story...is begun...

Glen or Glenda - Warning of a mythical creature's menace

Scientist: Beware...beware! Beware of the big green dragon that sits on your doorstep. He eats little boys...puppy dog tails, and big, fat snails. Beware, take care....beware!

Glen or Glenda - Mistakes Lead to Important Stories

Scientist: Pull the string! Pull the string! A mistake is made. A story must be told.

Glen or Glenda - The Journey of Life and Self-Discovery

Scientist: Man's constant groping of things unknown, drawing from the endless reaches of time, brings to light many startling things. Startling because they seem new...sudden...but most are not new to the signs of the ages. A life...is begun! People...all going somewhere. All with their own thoughts, their own ideas. All with their own personalities. One is wrong because he does right...one is right because he does wrong. Pull the strings! Dance to that, which one is created for. A new day is begun. A new life is begun. A life...is ended.

Murder by Television - Perception vs. Belief in Reality

Arthur Perry: As Ah Ling would say... Even though the eyes may see, the mind will not believe.

Murder by Television - Interstellar Frequency and the Death Ray

Arthur Perry: [explaining the mechanism of Dr. Houghland's death] They created the interstellar frequency, which is the death ray.

Mother Riley Meets the Vampire - Bats and Family Connections

Von Housen: When I came in, I saw you looking at that painting. Do you like bats?
Mrs. Riley: No, I hate them. They give me cold shivers up and down me brisket.
Von Housen: That's a great pity. That happens to be my brother.

Mother Riley Meets the Vampire - Curiosity About Evening Attire and Burial

Hitchcock: I'm curious to know why you always sleep in your evening clothes.
Von Housen: Really?
Hitchcock: Yes, Master.
Von Housen: I was buried in them.

One Body Too Many - Appreciating Coffee Together

Matthews: Such fine coffee.
Murkil: Isn't it?
Carol Dunlap: Oh, Albert!

One Body Too Many - Coffee Preferences in a Casual Conversation

Murkil: Would you care for the last cup of coffee, sir?
Albert Tuttle: Yes, I would. What kind of coffee is this? You know, there are two classes of coffee, Murkil. There's the percolated and there's the drip.
Murkil: This is percolated.
Albert Tuttle: Sorry, I'm a drip.

Son of Frankenstein - Ygor's Defiance After Death

Ygor: They hanged me once Frankenstein. They broke my neck. They said I was dead. Then they cut me down. They threw me in here, long ago. They wouldn't bury me in holy place like churchyard. Because I stole bodies, eh they said. So, Ygor is dead! So, Dr. Frankenstein. Nobody can mend Ygor's neck. It's alright.

Dracula - The Glorious Nature of Death

Count Dracula: To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious!
Mina: Why, Count Dracula!
Count Dracula: There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

Dracula - A Toast to Old Wine and Vampiric Habits

Count Dracula: This is very old wine. I hope you will like it.
Renfield: Aren't you drinking?
Count Dracula: I never drink...wine.

Dracula - Welcome to the Night's Music

Count Dracula: I am Dracula.
Renfield: Oh. It's really good to see you. I don't know what happened to the driver and my luggage, and... well, and with all this, I thought I was in the wrong place.
Count Dracula: I bid you welcome.
Count Dracula: Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Count Dracula: The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.
Renfield: Why, er... yes.

Dracula - Count Dracula's Command to Obey

Count Dracula: And after you deliver the message, you will remember nothing, I now say...Obey.

Dracula - Dracula's Reflection on Wisdom and Apology

Count Dracula: [after breaking a mirror] Doctor Seward. My humble apology. I dislike mirrors. Van Helsing will explain. For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.