Christopher Lee Quotes

Someone asked me yesterday if Dracula met Saruman and there was a fight, who would win. I just looked at this man. What an idiotic thing to say. I mean, really, it was half-witted.

We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.

The Dracula movies are probably some of the most famous and enduring ones there are and I am very grateful to them, for sure.

My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.

I have been metal all my life, only I did not know about it. The people in this album (Charlemagne) and I, share the same values.

I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people, to present them with something they didn't expect.

I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.

Johnny Depp, as far as I'm concerned, is number one. Of his generation, there's no one who can touch him. Some performers, today, it's like looking at holes in the air.

There are many vampires in the world today - you only have to think of the film business.

I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door".

As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.

I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts.

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old.

When I first read Lord of the Rings I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time the technology wasn't there, there was no such thing as CGI.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.

It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.

There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.

Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.

Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

People should not pass judgment until they have seen the film.

The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.

I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me.

If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.

Once asked if he felt wearied by the constant onslaught of autograph seekers, actor Gregory Peck replied that he would be more worried when they stopped asking.

Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.

I love Chicago. It is my new favorite city. It is the perfect place to do any kind of theater.

I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.

There is something sad about malevolence, to be wicked. I have always tried to make that come across in the villains I have played.

It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.

Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.

My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini.

'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.