Stage Quote by Bela Lugosi

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

When I was playing Dracula I had to switch off from the reality and fall into this fantasy world. Otherwise I just couldn't cope…

— Luke Evans

The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done this with him before? It's such…

— Victoria Smurfit

I have never directed anything for the stage. I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I used to read a lot of books and magazines about Dracula.

— Mimi Chakraborty

When I started writing about vampires, I swore that I wouldn't touch the 'Dracula' legend because it's been done too many times.

— Jeaniene Frost

Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.

— Tanith Lee

I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing…

— Christopher Lee

The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible…

— Bela Lugosi

Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.

— Andrew Tudor

I find inspiration in the movies I've loved, especially all films ever made about Dracula.

— Sasha Velour

I thought about how I'd play a vampire for awhile because I grew up watching vampire films and reading books.

— Joseph Morgan