It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
Supernatural perhaps...baloney, perhaps not!
I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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.