 Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy. |
| There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me. |
| To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge. |
| The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. |
| The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking. |
| 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. |
| The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible. |
| I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow. |
| I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo? |
| I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me. |
| To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula. |
| A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage. |
| 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. |
| People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. |
| If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers. |
| I've been using narcotics for 20 years. |
| It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role. |
| The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success. |
| I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension. |
