I've been using narcotics for 20 years.

I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.

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

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

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