Best 40 quotes of Bela Lugosi on MyQuotes

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

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

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.

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

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

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.

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

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.

I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

I never play without my cape.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.

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.

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

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 will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

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.

The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.

The stage is near and dear to me.

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.