“I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.”

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

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.

Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left with the unique role of buying… We’ve shopped till we dropped alright, face down on the floor.

Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.

When I was playing, it would be whatever role I wanted. Now it’s whatever they ask me to do, which I kind of like better.

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.

Never give up. Just follow your dreams because this business can be so hard sometimes. It doesn’t happen overnight where you get an audition or even a callback and get the role. It takes time.

When you’re brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.

I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don’t think it’s honest.