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

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.

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

I am drawn to roles that are strong, intelligent, and a little edgy.

In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn’t believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.

I’m definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.

The evidence is there and it is clear. We want the people to be held accountable. Everybody who played a role in the death of Martin Anderson, we want them to be held accountable.

Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

When I choose a role it’s either because I recognise the man, or that I’m very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don’t play him.