I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation’s support of its arts is a matter of both national pride...

We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don’t deal with ourselves and don’t deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person...

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

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

The stage is near and dear to me.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

I think that women need men and that men need women and we need each other and that independence and meeting somebody is not mutually exclusive.

I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

We’re very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we’re inspired by God. We recognize little...

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

Every actor wants to direct.

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

Don’t ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving...

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.