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

- Bela Lugosi

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

- 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

The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.

- Bela Lugosi

The stage is near and dear to me.

- Bela Lugosi

When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.

- Bela Lugosi

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.

- Bela Lugosi

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

- Bela Lugosi

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

- Bela Lugosi

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

- Bela Lugosi

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

- Bela Lugosi

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

- Bela Lugosi

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

- Bela Lugosi

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

- Bela Lugosi

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

- Bela Lugosi

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

- Bela Lugosi

I never play without my cape.

- Bela Lugosi

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

- Bela Lugosi

My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.

- Bela Lugosi

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.

- Bela Lugosi