Bela Lugosi Quotes

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

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.

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

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.

Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

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

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.

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

I never drink... wine.

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.

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

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

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

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

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

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

Women have a predestination to suffering.

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

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.

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

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

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

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

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