1.
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
Bela Lugosi
2.
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
Bela Lugosi
3.
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.
Bela Lugosi
4.
In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.
Bela Lugosi
5.
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
Bela Lugosi
6.
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.
Bela Lugosi
7.
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.
Bela Lugosi
8.
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
Bela Lugosi
9.
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
Bela Lugosi
10.
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.
Bela Lugosi
11.
I never play without my cape.
Bela Lugosi
12.
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.
Bela Lugosi
13.
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
Bela Lugosi
14.
Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
Bela Lugosi
15.
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
Bela Lugosi
16.
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.
Bela Lugosi
17.
Women have a predestination to suffering.
Bela Lugosi
18.
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
Bela Lugosi
19.
I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
Bela Lugosi
20.
I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
Bela Lugosi
21.
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.
Bela Lugosi
22.
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
Bela Lugosi
23.
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
Bela Lugosi
24.
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
Bela Lugosi
25.
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
Bela Lugosi
26.
I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.
Bela Lugosi
27.
I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
Bela Lugosi
28.
I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
Bela Lugosi
29.
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
Bela Lugosi
30.
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
Bela Lugosi
31.
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
Bela Lugosi
32.
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
Bela Lugosi
33.
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
Bela Lugosi
34.
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
Bela Lugosi
35.
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
Bela Lugosi
36.
In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
Bela Lugosi
37.
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.
Bela Lugosi
38.
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
Bela Lugosi
39.
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.
Bela Lugosi
40.
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
Bela Lugosi
41.
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
Bela Lugosi
42.
The stage is near and dear to me.
Bela Lugosi
43.
I've been using narcotics for 20 years.
Bela Lugosi
44.
Supernatural perhaps...baloney, perhaps not!
Bela Lugosi
45.
Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
Bela Lugosi
46.
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
Bela Lugosi
47.
I never drink... wine.
Bela Lugosi
48.
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
Bela Lugosi
49.
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
Bela Lugosi
50.
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.
Bela Lugosi
