To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

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

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

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.

In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.

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

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.

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 look deep into their hearts and their minds.

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

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

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 bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

With thought, all problems can be resolved.

Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.

A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes.

I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy.

I would like somebody to be hated more than I am.

Any structure must have a strong foundation. The cornerstones anchor the foundation. For some reason the cornerstones that I chose to begin with I never changed.

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

I'm not some sort of puppet. Like, there isn't a team of people telling me what to do.