Occupation: Actor Birth: October 20, 1882 Death: August 16, 1956
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very blo….
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….
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me..
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree..
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants..
I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?.
I've been using narcotics for 20 years..
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary..
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state..
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious..
Women have a predestination to suffering..
I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen..
The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula..
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge..
I'll take any story if it's good..
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting..
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..
If you are not serious, people will sense it..
Supernatural perhaps...baloney, perhaps not!.
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy..
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy..