Bela Lugosi Quotes

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

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed. Bela Lugosi.

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

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.

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.

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

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

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.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

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.

I never drink... wine.

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

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

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

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

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.

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

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.

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

I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion.

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

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

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.

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

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

Women have a predestination to suffering.

My close-up was magnificent!

This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. You are wasting my time.

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