128 Quotes by Christopher Lee

I am never going to stop playing the villain. I would be foolish to do so because the audiences apparently enjoy watching me, and who am I to say no?

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

I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan.

I was attached to the SAS from time to time, but we are forbidden - former, present, or future - to discuss any specific operations.

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

We don't live in a particularly attractive world. I don't really remember, except as a small boy, anything but a pretty grim world.

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.

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.

My father's family can be traced back to 1400. I've been told by gypsies that there is unmistakeably gypsy blood in me. Lee is a gypsy name, you know.