The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.

I'll take any story if it's good.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

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.

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