My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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.