Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a mans change of life.

When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.

Actors want to show off and dance in front of you and get your love, because they don't think they're worthy of it in any other way.

I would rather spend one night with Dracula dead than with my husband alive.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "The courage to be hated."