Actor

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

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

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

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

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

I'll take any story if it's good.

My close-up was magnificent!

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.

The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.

The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.

I never play without my cape.

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.

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.

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

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

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

I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

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