Words matter. These are the best Bela Lugosi Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.
I’ll take any story if it’s good.
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
In the studio the director controls the actor’s every move, every inflection, every expression.
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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 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 don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.
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.
In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
I enjoy my work. I haven’t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.
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.
My close-up was magnificent!
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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 never play without my cape.
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
