This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. You are wasting my time. 
In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression. 
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow. 
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting. 
It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom. 
I never drink... wine. 
I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension. 
I've been using narcotics for 20 years. 
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. 
I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession. 
Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac. 
My close-up was magnificent! 
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it. 
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary. 
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same. 
I have lived too completely, I think. I have known every human emotion. 
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life. 
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge. 
To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula. 
In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision. 
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. 
That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not. 
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner. 
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? 
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. 
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. 
It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me. 
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success. 
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. 