Christopher Lee Quotes

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• 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…
• I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it. Having seen the…
• Acting is like a snowstorm or perhaps a large empty vacuum. I`m not deluded by the fact that I`m getting all these offers for work,…
• 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…
• I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.
• In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.
• There are many vampires in the world today - you only have to think of the film business.
• I dont want to sound gloomy, but, at some point of your lives, every one of you will notice that you have in your life…
• I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, 'an open door.'
• I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at the world. There…
• 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 stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing him…
• 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…
• The Dracula movies are probably some of the most famous and enduring ones there are and I am very grateful to them, for sure.
• I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of…
• 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…
• I've been for 10 years trying to make something out of my life as an actor. I've learned a lot but I haven't done much…
• I did play Ramses II once, who lived to be 91 and had 120 children, but he died 4,000 years ago.
• One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took…

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