Quotes By Bela Lugosi

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

The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.

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

The stage is near and dear to me.

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.

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.

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

I never play without my cape.

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

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 take any story if it's good.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

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.

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

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

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

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

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

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

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

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

My close-up was magnificent!

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