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

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.

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

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

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.

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

I’ll take any story if it’s good.

The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.

I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

I never drink… wine.

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

Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

I never play without my cape.

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.

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

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.

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

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

Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

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

I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.