That is different, to have someone think that I am evil when I really am not.

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.

The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read.

Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant.

What can you learn from a statue? You can learn to stay calm whatever happens!

Man, that woman was quick when she wanted to be. But put her behind the wheel of a Buick.

A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee's.

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.

If a man has a weak arm, give him a heavy hammer to exceed himself!

You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.

When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery