Quotes By Bela Lugosi

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

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.

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

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.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

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.

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

I never play without my cape.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

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

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

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

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.

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.