Quotes By Bela Lugosi

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

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

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.

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

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

I've been using narcotics for 20 years.

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.

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.

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

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

My close-up was magnificent!

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

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

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

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.

When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.

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.

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

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.