Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

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.

It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

I ain't grouchy, ” Teft snapped. “I just have a low threshold for stupidity.

When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake.

After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

It's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child's growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming and the growing and the nurturing and the payoff.

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?

I love meeting life halfway.

My profession is called record production.