The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner..

I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion..

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

When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same..

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

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

I never drink... wine..

I never play without my cape..

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers..

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed..

Death, the final, triumphant lover..

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

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 ….

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

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

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

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..

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, th….

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula..

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