Lugosi's Gift of Gab (quotes)
If you have seen these movies, the Bela quotes may sound familiar to you.
1) The Thirteenth Chair
"So there are two Helens."
2) Such Men are Dangerous
"I could do too much good with this money."
3) Renegades
"You look nice when you don't say nothing."
4) Dracula
"I trust you kept your coming here a secret?"
"We will be leaving tomorrow evening."
"I never drink wine."
"Come here! Come...here."
"Your will is strong, Van Helsing."
"I now say, Obey!"
"Now that you have learned what you have learned, it would be well for you to return to your own country!"
"More wolfbane?"
"The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield."
"This is very old wine. I hope you will like it."
"The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly."
"To die. To be really dead. That must be glorious."
"I'm sure you will find this part of my castle more inviting."
"I'm taking with me only three, er, boxes."
"I shall do very little repairing."
"I hope you haven't taken my stories too seriously."
"You are too late. My blood, now, flows through her veins."
"I dislike mirrors. Van Helsing will explain."
"Listen to them. The children of the night. What music they make."
"There are far worse things awaiting man than death."
"In my humble effort to amuse your fiancée, Mr. Harker, I was telling her some rather grim tells of my far off country."
5) Women of All Nations
"Meeeeeooowwwww!"
"You know what will happen to them?"
"Ah! Up to her old tricks!"
"Bar the gate, then, sharpen the knives!"
"Tell my wives, I command their presence."
6) Broadminded
"I had a little trouble with...uh...what you, Americans, call a fresh punk!"
"He not only insulted me, but he stole my fountain pen!"
"If I had you in my country, I would kill you!"
"You fool! Look what you've done to my strawberry shortcake!"
"This vile creature is my sweetheart!"
"You're not fit to eat with pigs!"
"First you spoil my shortcake and now, now you ruin my rear-end!"
"But in the future you must act only for me!"
"You must be more careful where you display your talent!"
7) Murders in the Rue Morgue
"A lady in distress?"
"Dead. You're, you're dead."
"Your blood is rotten! Black as you sins! You cheated me! Your beauty was a lie!"
"Heresy? Heresy? Do they still burn men for heresy?"
"Her blood is perfect!"
"Will my search ever end?"
"We shall know if you are to be the bride of science!"
"He has an eye for beauty!"
"Listen to him, brothers and sisters. He's speaking to you."
"Do you think your little candle will outshine the flame of truth?"
"I'm not exhibiting a freak, a monstrosity of nature, but a milestone in the development of life."
"Behold! The first man!"
"So, if you expect to witness the usual carnival hocus pocus, just go to the box office to get your money back."
"There's no need to be afraid! He's behind bars and cannot hurt you."
8) White Zombie
"To you, my friend, they are the angels of death."
"In a glass of wine, or perhaps a flower."
"Back to the grave, Monsieur?"
"There is no other way."
"Well, well. We understand each other better now."
"I've taken a fancy to you, Monsieur."
"She is deep in love. But not with you."
"You refused to shake hands once. I remember."
"They work faithfully. They are not worried about long hours."
"You paint a charming picture, Monsieur. One that I should like to see myself!"
"You see, you are the first man to know what is happening. None of the others did."
"They would tear me to pieces. But that, my friend, shall never be."
"I have other plans for mademoiselle. I'm afraid you might not agree."
9) Chandu the Magician
"London, New York, Imperial Rome! I can blast them all into a heap of smoking ruins!"
"Are you ready to tell me the secret of the death ray?"
"Pharaoh! I shall be greater than any Pharaoh!"
"That lever is my scepter!"
"Paris. City of fools. Proud of their Napoleon."
"At last, I am king of all!"
"More than a billion tons of water will sweep down on them, drowning them like rats!"
"If I were alone, I would. These silly natives! They believe your tricks!"
"But not under water!"
"Then there will be only one supreme intelligence. Me!"
"Samson's strength was in his hair. Chandu's strength is in his eyes."
10) Island of Lost Souls
"Are we not men?"
"His is the house of pain!"
11) The Death Kiss
"We'll talk about that later."
12) Night of Terror
"It's always best to keep your mouth and your eyes closed!"
"I warned you not to go into a trance!"
"Death is always very close!"
13) International House
"In my country, you're still my wife!"
"Any man that comes between us, he will be finished!"
"I will take his throat in my hands and I will squeeze and break..." <crunch>
"What have you been doing?!"
"These American millionaires! They think money can buy anything!"
"I always have a nice trip!"
"If anyone has bought it, he shall not leave with it!"
14) The Black Cat
"Why is she....why is she like this?"
"You poor fool. I only tried to help you. Now go, please go!"
"It is, after all, better to be frightened than to be crushed."
"Supernatural, perhaps, balony perhaps not. There are many things under the sun."
"Do you know what I'm going to do to you now?"
"In five minutes, Marmaros, you, and I, and your rotton cult, will be no more."
"Where is my wife, Karen, and my daughter!"
"After fifteen years, I have returned!"
"Fifteen years I've rotted in the darkness. Waited. Not to kill you, to kill your soul slowly."
"No matter how hopeless it all seems. Be brave."
"Don't pretend, Hjalmar! There was nothing spiritual in your eyes when you looked at that girl!"
"The masterpiece of construction...built upon the ruins of the masterpiece of destruction...the masterpiece of murder."
"Many men have gone there. Few have returned. I have returned!"
"I can still sense death in the air."
"I go to visit an old friend."
15) The Best Man Wins
"Didn't he say it was his last dive?"
"Have you come to see my fish?"
"I, too, am a son of Pisces."
16) Gift of Gab
"What time is it?"
17) The Mysterious Mr. Wong
"Maybe, buy some herbs, maybe?"
"You, Americans, are always in such a hurry."
"Time will teach you to guard indifferent speech!"
"Wong has dared many things. He will continue to dare!"
18) Mark of the Vampire
"Did you watch me? I was greater than any real vampire!"
"This vampire business, it has given me a great idea for a new act. Luna, in the new act, I will be the vampire."
19) The Raven
"Don't compel me to treat you like an animal!"
"A knife...Descending...Torture you!"
"You driveling fool! Stop talking!"
"Your monstrous ugliness breeds monstrous hate. Good! I can use your hate."
"Yes! I like to torture!"
"Your love will make it beautiful."
"Poe! You are avenged! Hahahahahahaha!!!"
"When a man of genius is denied of his great love, he goes mad!"
"Money means nothing to me!"
"Send her, Judge Thatcher! I warn you!"
"Death hasn't the same significance for me as it has for you."
"A god with the taint of human emotions."
"When I touch it, does it still hurt?"
"Poor fella. He can't help the way he looks."
"If you touch that switch, I'll not fix you!"
"Fifteen minutes! There's the clock, you can see it!"
"Torture and murder."
"It's more than a hobby."
"You're just in time to be witnesses to a wedding ceremony. And now the ceremony begins."
"It's the room where the walls come together."
"My brain, your hand."
"It's now 11:00. Your job begins."
"I'm the sanest man who ever lived! But I will not be tortured!"
"But I warn you. They're ready for use."
"Jean torments me. She has come into my life, into my brain."
"Torture for those who have tortured him."
20) Murder by Television
"My brother. A twin."
21) The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
"Oh, God! I've killed my fellow man."
"Let go that cat!"
"I.....I killed a man!"
"Shanghaied."
"Now look at me. My hair white. My arm...gone. Derelict."
"A mate tied a rope around me and dragged me in the sea. A shark!"
22) The Invisible Ray
"Do you intend to kill us all?"
"Why, you're poisoned."
"Aren't there ever moments when you think as you used to think? When you're human?"
"They die."
"Your body again becomes the deadly machine it was. Your touch will kill."
"If you do not use the counteractive in time, you will literally crumble to an ash."
"You have harnessed its power to destroy. Have you harnessed it to heal?"
"I felt it was better to let things alone when you were first poisoned. I warned you about your brain."
23) Son of Frankenstein
"But his mother was the lightning."
"They die dead, I die live!"
"I scare him to death, I don't have to kill him to death."
"Because I stole bodies...they said."
"I'm sorry, I cough. You see, bone gets stuck in my throat." <cough, cough, cough, heh, heh, heh.....>
"He...he does things for me."
"No! He will never tell."
"He was hunting!"
"They wouldn't bury me in holy place like churchyard."
"He's well enough for me. And you no touch him again!"
"They said I was dead. Then they cut me down."
"It took eight men before to say I was to be hanged."
"Nobody can mend Ygor's neck. It's alright." <knock, knock>
"No. He cannot be destroyed. Cannot die. Your father made him live for always."
"Eight men say Ygor hang. Now eight men dead! All dead!"
"This is place of the dead. We're all dead here."
24) The Gorilla
"Perhaps, you gentlemen, had better look outside for clues."
"I'm afraid, gentlemen, you won't find the gorilla in there."
25) The Human Monster
"You're blind and you can't see, but you can hear. And that will never do!"
"Yes, I am the man who disposed of your father, for the same reason that I must now dispose of that poor fool on the bed. Both got in my way!"
"Get out!"
"Perhaps, you'd better see her safely...home."
"Brilliant, but unbalanced. That was the verdict."
"And, uh, find me poor Stuart's number in the phonebook. I want to communicate with his daughter."
"And the greatest of these is charity."
"No, you won't squeal. I'll see to that."
26) The Saint's Double Trouble
"Can you play, "Home Sweet Home?"
27) Black Friday
"Let me out please! I'm suffocating!"
"It's in the oven!!!"
28) You'll Find Out
"Racket??? Do you dare to suggest that the practice of the occult scientist is a racket?!"
"I regret that our acquaintance shall be blown up so soon."
"You have a real voice, my dear! It's criminal to waste it on such trash!"
29) The Devil Bat
"Goodbye, Roy."
"I don't think you'll ever use anything else."
"Well, I do dream. Dreams that you could never guess."
"I've already proved it. Three times."
"Our theory of glandular stimulation through electrical process was correct."
"Formula! That is child's play for a great scientist!"
"Perhaps that will be the secret of its success."
"You wouldn't understand scientific theories."
"Ptuh! Imbecile! Bombastic ignoramus!"
"Yes, you will strike! To kill!"
"A few days ago you were as small as your companion. And now look at you!"
"You have not forgotten. You hate this oriental fragrance. Even while you sleep."
"I have a violent dislike for perfumes."
"As a scientist, I assure you, the thought of a human controlling a bat is fantastic."
"Firearms always make me nervous."
30) The Invisible Ghost
Psalms 23:6 "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever."
"Apple pie! My, that will be a treat!"
"Mrs. Kessler first, Evans."
"I knew you'd come back. Nothing can part us now, my darling."
31) The Black Cat
"Here, kitty, kitty, kitty."
32) Black Dragons
"One must not flirt with one's destiny."
"All men are in danger of dying. The important question is when."
"Who knows in this crazy world?"
"Heh, heh, heh. You were both very accommodation, Mr. Ryder! Thank you."
"Mine might be dangerous."
"Curiosity killed the cat."
"When a young woman's nerves commence to give way, it is time she sought refuge in a strong man's arms."
"Hahaha! And you must go on living!" <gack>
"I was humming. Is my voice as bad as that?"
33) Ghost of Frankenstein
"Better death than a life like this."
"You're going to make him your friend and I would be alone."
"The lightning! It is good for you!"
"My brain, and his body, together."
"How does it feel to face a man you thought your brother killed, Doctor?"
"The sulfur was good for you!"
"My friend! They didn't kill you!"
"I know his father and his brother too."
"I will live again. Only this crooked body will die."
34) The Corpse Vanishes
"Because he is a beast, an animal, and someday I'll have to destroy him."
"I find a coffin much more comfortable than a bed."
"Don't be afraid, Angel."
"My dear, you must have had a bad dream."
"My little family! You're all so very faithful."
"You're beautiful. And I shall always keep you that way."
35) Bowery at Midnight
"He was a valuable man."
"Here you will find food for your body, as well as, comfort for your troubled mind."
"This morning you wanted to know what a man thinks about just before he dies."
"Doc, how often have I told you to keep that cat from desecrating my graves?!"
"These mildewed skeletons, who sleep so quietly now, were once my partners like Stratton."
"The language is rather picturesque, but the meaning is perfect!"
"Let's go, Frankie. Our place is not with the dead. Their work is done. Ours is just beginning."
"You see, I like to bring old friends together."
36) The Ape Man
"Oh, call it what you like!"
"Tell him he's wanted in surgery."
37) Ghosts on the Loose
"Achoo!" or "O s#@*t!" (Depending on your point of view)
"Why do I have such idiots around me?"
38) Return of the Vampire
"With all your scientific knowledge, you have achieved nothing."
"Come to me, Nikki!"
"Look at me, Andreas!"
"Her soul will wonder through the night and you will never find where her body rests."
"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!"
<smooch> "Charmed, indeed. I understand this is an engagement party. May I offer my congratulations and wish you, how do you say it in England, all the best?"
"There are many strange things in the world, Sir Frederick. Vampires who may be one of them."
39) Voodoo Man
"Soon we will be together...together."
"Somewhere there must be a girl with a perfect affinity."
"Emotion...to...emotion. Mind...to...mind."
"This one will be successful! Bring in the zombies!"
"She's dead only in the sense you understand that word."
40) Return of the Ape Man
"There is only one way. Fire."
"Murder is an ugly word. As a scientist, I don't recognize it."
"I'm married too. A true scientist is married to his profession."
"I see you and I do not think a like!"
"So, my self-righteous friend was going to tell the police, eh? Heh, heh...You trusting, stupid fool"
"Hmmmm. A noble profession. Requires a keen mind and a good sense of logic."
"If I can suspend animation for four months, I can do it for four years, or perhaps four hundred years!"
41) One Body Too Many
"There are too many rats in this house. They should be done away with."
"I assure you. This coffee will not keep you awake."
42) The Body Snatcher
"You mean we would sell the bodies to the doctors together? Dig em up?"
43) Zombies on Broadway
"In a few moments, you, too, will be one!"
"She will be just as nice to look at."
"I know nothing about zombies. I came here to study a strange coconut blight."
44) Scared to Death
"My boy, trouble and I are like this." (crosses fingers)
"Laurette, Laurette. I'll make a bet the man in green will get you yet!"
"A very good idea, my dear, Joseph. To have a private body guard at your beck and call."
"My little guardian of the doorbell. If you had waited another second, Indigo and I should have kicked the door in!"
"Do not be polite to Indigo. He's only offended by it."
45) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
"I am accustomed to having my orders obeyed!"
"What we need today is young blood and brains."
"Ah, you young people, making the most of life, while it lasts."
"Don't be bashful. Come."
"You should be careful! A person can get killed that way!"
"Restore the monster for me and you shall have anything you wish."
"Oh, my costume, perhaps."
"Have you mastered Dr. Frankenstein's book?"
"And I must say, my dear, I approve very highly of your choice."
46) Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
"Where is my robot?! My beautiful robot?!"
"I was buried in them!"
"Do you like bats?"
"No Frankenstein with all the weaknesses of the flesh!"
"That happens to be my brother."
"Wouldn't you prefer a nice, juicy, steak about two inches thick, underdone? Lovely and red in the middle?"
"And liver for breakfast...plenty of liver with the blood running out of it."
47) Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
"Welcome to my creepjoint."
"A most interesting cranium. Strange. But interesting."
"Why do you treat me so cold, my dear? You know I love you. I want you!"
"Where nature takes years, I can, in a matter of hours, make a complete embryonic metamorphosis, both physiologically and morphologically. Do you understand?"
"Certainly they are monkeys, but they are also guinea pigs, for the reason that I use them in my experiments. Do you understand?"
48) Glen or Glenda
"People all going somewhere. All with their own thoughts, their own ideas, all with their own personalities."
"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!"
"Pull the string!"
49) Bride of the Monster
"I will show the world that I can be its master!"
"Lobo! <smack> You're too rough with my patients!"
"You will be soon as big as a giant! The strength of 20 men or I call the others dead!!!"
"He's as gentle as a kitten."
"Home! I have no home. Hunted. Despised. Living like an animal. The jungle is my home."
"Because of the storm, I was afraid we were not going to have guests tonight. Heh, heh, heh."
Serials:
The Whispering Shadow
"I'll put an end to his spying!"
"Never mind me! He's got the jewels!"
"But you realize those jewels mean more to me than life itself!"
The Return of Chandu
"Drop that knife!"
"Those drums are the evil forces of black magic."
"But the Yogi said, have faith."
"Well, some people may call it hypnotism."
"Anything is possible where black magic is concerned."
Shadow of Chinatown
"You're afraid that you, like Frankenstein, have created a monster who should turn and devour you."
"The fish did not interfere with my plan(s)."
"Be careful that you do not become one of the obstacles I just mentioned."
"Drop that pistol!"
"But be careful that you don't hurt the fish."
"I think we can consider the incident of Tom Cho closed."
SOS Coastguard
"It's too bad it wasn't him I shot instead of his brother."
<Slap> "Clumsy fool!"
The Phantom Creeps
"Worse can happen to you than anything the law could do!"
"That man is dead. How fortunate! That simplifies everything!"
"What could the police or anybody do against an army like them?"
"Fools! Fools! Let them search! They will find nothing!"
Shorts:
Hollywood on Parade
"You have booped your last boop!"
Interviews:
Intimate Interviews
"Three of them I married."
London Interview
(1951)"Dracula never ends."
Trailers
(1935) Mark of the Vampire-"Watch out! They may be hovering over you! Or you!! Or you!!!"
TV Shows
You Asked for It-"Well, remember Ms. Frazer, you asked for it!"