74 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

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

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

If you are not serious, people will sense it.