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

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.

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.

Supernatural perhaps...baloney, perhaps not!

I never play without my cape.

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