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

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

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.

Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!

The stage is near and dear to me.

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

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

I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

I’ve been using narcotics for 20 years.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

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

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.

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

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

That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.

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

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

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

What first got me involved in politics was being 14, and a youth organizer comes to my house with a van full of 14 year old girls. “Hey, you want to go to the beach with us? But first we’re going to go support the cannery workers’ strike in Watsonville.”

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. She knew she would never see it again.

The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It’s not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.

I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.