128 Quotes by Christopher Lee

To be a legend, you’ve either got to be dead or excessively old!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.