In the studio the director controls the actor‘s every move, every inflection, every expression.

I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.

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

My close-up was magnificent!

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

I enjoy my work. I haven‘t been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

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

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.

I’ll take any story if it’s good.

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

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.

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

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.

I never play without my cape.

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

The stage is near and dear to me.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

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 screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.