Quotes by Christopher Lee - Page 2

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 driving lessons.
Christopher Lee / Actor
California
Lessons
Southern California
Transport
Discovers
First Things
Visitor
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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.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Careers
Good Guy
Guy
Interesting
Good Bad Bad Guy
Bad Guy
Entire Career
Frequently
Hat
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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.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Inspirational
Italian
Writing
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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 stopped asking.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Actors
Asking
Would Be
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The most important film I made, in terms of its subject and the great responsibility I had as an actor, was a film I did about the founder of Pakistan called 'Jinnah.'
Christopher Lee / Actor
Great Responsibility
Pakistan
Great Responsibility Important
Founder
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I have made a lot of movies, but I don't see any point in talking about films I don't think are terribly good. I have been in a few. I don't know any actor that hasn't.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Terribly
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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.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Air
Generations
Numbers
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In 1956, the success of the Hammer films kick-started my career. That immediately gave me a name and a face to go with it. I will always be grateful to Hammer for that.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Be Grateful
Grateful
Success Face Me
Hammer
Immediately
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When I was very young - around the age of nine - my family used to go to a house in Somerset that my stepfather rented every summer. There was fishing, lakes and riding.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Fishing
Lakes
Nine
Riding
Summer
Stepfather
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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.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Inspirational
Lines
Seven
Years
Dracula
Gap
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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.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Marie
Madame
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Ian Fleming was my cousin, and he wanted me to play Dr. No, but by the time he got around to remembering to tell the producers, they'd already cast someone else. Spilt milk!
Christopher Lee / Actor
Cousin
Milk
Producers
Fleming
By The Time
Time Me Milk
Cast
Dr
Remembering
Spilt
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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.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Character
Concerned
Trying
World
Consequences
Change Character World
Change The World
Don Quixote
Fictional
Handed
Metal
Quixote
Regardless
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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.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Fighting
Mean
Winning
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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.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Cameras
Opera
Television
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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.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Inspirational
Certain
Country
Favourite
Finland
Hours
Peace And Quiet
Quiet
Seeing
Single
Single Person
Drive
Certain Point
Often
Point
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'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.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Courage
Dream
Bravery
Daring
Determination
Impossible
Old Man
Opinion
Romanticism
Written
Very
Greatest
Songs
Here
Full
Old
Ever
In My Opinion
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I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Opportunity
Debt
Grateful
Well Known
Great Always Opportunity
Acknowledged
Face
Great Opportunity Always
Gave
Hammer
Profoundly
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I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well-known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Inspirational
Opportunity
Grateful
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I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at the world. There is decline in morals, ideals, manners, respect, truthfulness: just about everything, in fact.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Age
Medicine
Thinking
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I still think 'The Lord of the Rings' is the greatest literary achievement in my lifetime. Like so many other people, I couldn't wait for the second and then the third book. Nothing like it had ever been written.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Achievement
Lifetime
Lord
Rings
Wait
Lord Of The Rings
Third
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There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Bad People
Dark
Dark Side
Sadness
Great People Doing
Across
Bad
Doing
Side
Cannot
Great Bad People
Ourselves
Put
Stop
Tried
Villains
We Cannot
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When the Second World War finished, I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. Seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Inspirational
War
World
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Making films has never just been a job to me, it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going, it's what I do, it gives life purpose.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Inspirational
Jobs
Book
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Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going: it's what I do; it gives life purpose.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Instance
Life Me My Life
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When the Second World War finished, I was 23, and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. So seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Finished
Horror
Lifetime
Second World War
War World Me
War Enough World
Affect
Depicted
Dreadful
World War
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I'm still asked a great deal about 'The Wicker Man' because it's become one of the great cult movies of all time. That's the story of my career, really, making cult movies. And I've always said it's the best film I've ever made.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Cult
Best Time Great
Great Deal
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I don't play long parts. They must be short parts, but they've got to be parts that mean something, that matter, where people will notice when I'm on the screen, and people will remember the character after they've seen the film.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Character
Mean
Play
Notice
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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 into the contemporary day and age, that it really no longer had any meaning.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Age
Character
Opinion
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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 our everyday world. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Everyday
Fairy Stories
Gods And Goddesses
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The song "My Way" is a very remarkable song. It is also difficult to sing because you've got to convince people that what you're singing about is the truth. It's a man who is very proud of having achieved everything that he's achieved his way.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Men
People
Song
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The song 'My Way' is a very remarkable song. It is also difficult to sing because you've got to convince people that what you're singing about is the truth. It's a man who is very proud of having achieved everything that he's achieved his way.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Convince
Remarkable
Achieved
His Way
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Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and give them a part - not because they think that person is right for it or is ready for it, but because they think that person will make them money.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Inspirational
Accountants
Air
Thinking
Male
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On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Famous
Italian
Rome
Across
Original
Side
Count
Painted
Trace
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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'm very happy about it, but I know also that there is the other side and who knows, next year, they may not offer me anything. You never know.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Acting
Next
Years
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I don't really like long flights any more - I find them too tiring. Flying always involves the same things these days - huge crowds at airports, waiting around, late take-offs, weather problems, and so on. I don't really enjoy travelling. I don't imagine anyone does except young children.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Crowds
Flying
Waiting
Weather
Young Children
Airport
Flights
Involves
Same Things
Tiring
Travelling
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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 that's worthwhile. So maybe if I make people wonder what I really do look like and make myself unrecognizable, they will be interested and intrigued, which eventually, of course, happened.
Christopher Lee / Actor
People
Trying
Years
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There are certain things producers ask you to do, and when I was starting out, I said yes to everything. I was asked, for 'Quo Vadis,' to drive a chariot. I said, 'Oh yes. I'm licenced for all vehicles.' Two days later, I was sitting in this dustbin with two very aggressive horses. I didn't stay in it for long.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Aggressive
Certain Things
Horses
Quo
Vehicles
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Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, 'What are you going to do now you're out of uniform?' I said, 'I'm pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,' and he said, 'Have you thought about being an actor?'
Christopher Lee / Actor
Inspirational
War
Cousin
Italian
Lunch
Profession
Ambassador
Imitate
Inventive
Uniform
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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 worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of shell. But you had to. You had to. Otherwise, we would never have won.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Men
Bombs
Facts
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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 one person, one friend whom you love and care for very much. That person is so close to you that you are able to share some things only with him. For example, you can call that friend, and from the very first maniacal laugh or some other joke you will know who is at the other end of that line. We used to do that with him so often. And then when that person is gone, there will be nothing like that in your life ever again.
Christopher Lee / Actor
Inspirational
Laughing
Sound
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