Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
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.
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
My close-up was magnificent!
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
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.
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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.
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 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.
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.
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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.
Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
