He actually rubbed shoulders with presidents, leaders of countries, the head of the FBI, and ambassadors, |
He drove fast, but no faster than anybody else that I knew at the time. A lot of people said he had a death wish. He did not. |
He epitomized that dissatisfied young teenager. He looked like the boy next door, but he behaved differently. |
His mother died when he was a little kid, his father didn't understand him, and he was raised by an aunt and uncle and a grandfather on a farm. He had a lot of darkness, without question. |
It was just terrible. But here was Lugosi: old, addicted, sick. Couldn't take your eyes off him here in this terrible movie. He was fascinating and I became an enormous fan, and I said I want to do this guy justice. |
Life is a roller coaster, ... There are ups, there are downs, there are hills, there are valleys, peaks and so on. And [Burton] knew that there were some pictures that I did over the years with some directors that should have been turned into guitar picks, and would have been more worthwhile had they been. But he understood that I understood that. |
We had talked about growing older. He used to worry that he looked like a kid when he became an actor. |