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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.