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.
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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.
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.
Supernatural perhaps...baloney, perhaps not!
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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.
The stage is near and dear to me.
The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.
I never play without my cape.
In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
I've been using narcotics for 20 years.
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
I'll take any story if it's good.
I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
