Quotes By Bela Lugosi

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

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

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.

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

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

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

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.

My close-up was magnificent!

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.

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

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

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I've been using narcotics for 20 years.

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

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