Christopher Lee Quotes
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Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.
— Christopher Lee
The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.
— Christopher Lee
I did play Ramses II once, who lived to be 91 and had 120 children, but he died 4,000 years ago.
— Christopher Lee
I made three films with Boris Karloff. He was absolutely wonderful.
— Christopher Lee
I learned early that the one truly international quality among people of all races is xenophobia.
— Christopher Lee
It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.
— Christopher Lee
I was attached to the SAS from time to time, but we are forbidden - former, present, or future - to discuss any specific operations.
— Christopher Lee
The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.
— Christopher Lee
I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few.
— Christopher Lee
There are many vampires in the world today ... you only have to think of the film business.
— Christopher Lee
Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.
— Christopher Lee
What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.
— Christopher Lee
Before 'Lord of the Rings,' some people would have just classed Peter Jackson as a horror director. But there is a mind there.
— Christopher Lee
I knew Vincent Price from films - he was a big movie star - but the first time I met him was when we filmed 'The Oblong Box.'
— Christopher Lee
There is something sad about malevolence, to be wicked. I have always tried to make that come across in the villains I have played.
— Christopher Lee
Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.
— Christopher Lee
When I first read 'Lord of the Rings,' I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time, the technology wasn't there; there was no such thing as CGI.
— Christopher Lee
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.
— Christopher Lee
I haven't done lots of horror.
— Christopher Lee
I've worked with Tim Burton five times, and it's just like being part of a family; life doesn't get much better than that.
— Christopher Lee
They didn't have the money to keep Christopher Lee long enough to play his scenes with me.
— Herbert Lom
ago in your father. I know you will
— Christopher Lee Buckner
The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.
— Christopher Lee
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 values.
— Christopher Lee
'The Wicker Man' for me, as an actor, was definitely the best film I've ever done.
— Christopher Lee
Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read into that what they like.
— Christopher Lee
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.
— Christopher Lee
I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.
— Christopher Lee
We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.
— 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?
— Christopher Lee
Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.
— Nicolas Cage
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.
— Christopher Lee
Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.
— Christopher Lee
I turn to the 'Telegraph's' obituaries page with trepidation.
— Christopher Lee
Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.'
— Christopher Lee
If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.
— Christopher Lee
I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.
— Christopher Lee
Not every Hammer film was perfect.
— Christopher Lee
A whole new career opened up for me when I was in 'Lord Of The Rings' and 'Star Wars.'
— Christopher Lee
To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!
— Christopher Lee
I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.
— Christopher Lee
The Dracula movies are probably some of the most famous and enduring ones there are and I am very grateful to them, for sure.
— Christopher Lee
It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.
— Christopher Lee
People should not pass judgment until they have seen the film.
— Christopher Lee
I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.
— Christopher Lee
Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.
— Christopher Lee
I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.
— Christopher Lee
