Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

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

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

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

I've been using narcotics for 20 years.

I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

Death, the final, triumphant lover.