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

Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and give them a part - not because they think that person is right for it or is ready for it, but because they think that person will make them money.

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.

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

I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few.