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 Quote

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

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

Death, the final, triumphant lover.
- Bela Lugosi Quote

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

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

I never play without my cape.
- Bela Lugosi Quote

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

I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
- Bela Lugosi Quote

I've been using narcotics for 20 years.
- Bela Lugosi Quote

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
- Bela Lugosi Quote

If you are not serious, people will sense it.
- Bela Lugosi Quote

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.
- Bela Lugosi Quote

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 Quote

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
- Bela Lugosi Quote

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
- Bela Lugosi Quote

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 Quote

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
- Bela Lugosi Quote

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 Quote

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
- Bela Lugosi Quote

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

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
- Bela Lugosi Quote

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

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 Quote

The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.
- Bela Lugosi Quote

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

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 Quote

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
- Bela Lugosi Quote

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
- Bela Lugosi Quote

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

Women have a predestination to suffering.
- Bela Lugosi Quote

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