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

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 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.

I never play without my cape.

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

A powerful thing, destiny. You can't run from it. Not in the end.

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.

I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.

Boldness comes from curiosity.

I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.

My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.

To have big success, you must have big dreams, and you must be willing to take a chance.

Nothing in human life is inherently private.