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

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

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.

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

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

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

I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.