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

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

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

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

Death, the final, triumphant lover.
Bela Lugosi

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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

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

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

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


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

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

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

I never play without my cape.
Bela Lugosi

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

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

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

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

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

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