To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.

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.

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

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

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