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.

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 have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

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.