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 never play without my cape.

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

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

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.

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.