If you are not serious, people will sense it.
Bela Lugosi

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.
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 making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
Bela Lugosi

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
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

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.
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

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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 damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
Bela Lugosi

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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

My close-up was magnificent!
Bela Lugosi

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

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

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

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

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

The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
Bela Lugosi

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