Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

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.

An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.

Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?

Winning isn’t getting ahead of others. It’s getting ahead of yourself.

It is not the services we render them but the services they render us that attaches people to us.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.

I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect,' when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.