Quotes By Bela Lugosi

I've been using narcotics for 20 years.

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.

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

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

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.