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.

I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

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.

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.

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.