I love Chicago. It is my new favorite city. It is the perfect place to do any kind of theater.

I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people, to present them with something they didn't expect.

When the Second World War finished, I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. Seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.

I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing him into the contemporary day and age, that it really no longer had any meaning.

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old.

I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.