Bela Lugosi

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

— Bela Lugosi

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

— Bela Lugosi

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

— Bela Lugosi

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror.…

— Bela Lugosi

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

— Bela Lugosi

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

— Bela Lugosi

I've been using narcotics for 20 years.

— Bela Lugosi

I will not be tortured, I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

— Bela Lugosi

It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a…

— Bela Lugosi

In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.

— Bela Lugosi

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

— Bela Lugosi

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see…

— Bela Lugosi

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

— Bela Lugosi

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

— Bela Lugosi

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

— Bela Lugosi

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

— Bela Lugosi

My close-up was magnificent!

— Bela Lugosi

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

— Bela Lugosi

I never drink... wine.

— Bela Lugosi

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

— Bela Lugosi

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the…

— Bela Lugosi

The stage is near and dear to me.

— Bela Lugosi

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

— Bela Lugosi

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

— Bela Lugosi

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

— Bela Lugosi