It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

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.

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.