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

Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.

In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.

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.

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

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