"To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula."

"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession."

"A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage."

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

"There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me."

"I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion."

"Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state."

"In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression."

"The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies."

"Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life."

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

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

"The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking."

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

"If you are not serious, people will sense it."

"It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing."

"I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person."

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

"I never play without my cape."

"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."

"My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me."

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

"Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting."

"I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds."

"Death, the final, triumphant lover."

"I've been using narcotics for 20 years."

"The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success."

"In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary."

"It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more."

"To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge."

"I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree."

"The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible."

"It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role."

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

"I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow."

"Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman."

"The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner."

"Women have a predestination to suffering."

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

"You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek."