128 Quotes by Christopher Lee

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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