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

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

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

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.

It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

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