Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

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.

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.