"You could heave a brick out of the window and hit ten actors who could play my parts. I just happened to be on the ri…"

"It was a family name on my mother's side, and I thought my own name Pratt, if I ever got known in the theatre might b…"

"The Monster was the best friend I ever had. I'd been in Hollywood for ten years and no one had heard of me except my …"

"I adored making ' with dear Boris Karloff. He refused to do his own stunts, the mark of a true Hollywood star."

"He was a lovely man. We used to have great fun reciting poetry to each other."

"I remember Boris Karloff saying to me, find something that nobody else can do or will do, even if it is a type of rol…"

"Very grand, but so withdrawn. But he was always polite. A gentleman."

"Boris Karloff's face has always fascinated me, and I made drawings of his head, added sharp, bony ridges where I imag…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"