Bela Lugosi's Quotes

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 never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

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.

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

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.

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

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

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.

I never play without my cape.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I'll take any story if it's good.

I've been using narcotics for 20 years.