Bela Lugosi

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.