Quotes By Bela Lugosi

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.

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.

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

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I never play without my cape.

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

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.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

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 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.

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.