When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.

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.

Wisdom is the essence of education. Kindness is the essence of morality.

Cause and effect is the basis of my education, leading me to an essence far more profound than any rule of societal conditioning.

He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

I don't think of my music as being about something.

No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.

Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.

Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.