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

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.

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

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.

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

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

It’s a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us.

You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.

When you start getting into a full-band, democratic context the little things almost immediately get thrown out the window because you don’t think they’re important.

What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?

The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because when you think about it, all of your old routines sort of go out the window, and suddenly a marketer can come in and sell you new kinds of things.

The mind is like the wind. You’re trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?

When you look at a beautiful view from a window, the beautiful view also looks at you from the same window! But the window looks at both you and the view! Wise man is the window itself; he looks at everywhere!

Never hesitate to open new windows in your life!