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

I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

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

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.

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

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.