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.

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

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

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.

The stage is near and dear to me.

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

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.