I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

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.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

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