Death, the final, triumphant lover.

I've been using narcotics for 20 years.

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

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 Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.