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Not every Hammer film was perfect.
If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.
I turn to the 'Telegraph's' obituaries page with trepidation.
People should not pass judgment until they have seen the film.
Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.
To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old.
To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!
In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.
I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.
Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.
Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.
The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.
I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me.
I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few.
The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.
A whole new career opened up for me when I was in 'Lord Of The Rings' and 'Star Wars.'
There are many vampires in the world today - you only have to think of the film business.
There are many vampires in the world today... you only have to think of the film business.
I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.
I love Chicago. It is my new favorite city. It is the perfect place to do any kind of theater.
It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.
Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read into that what they like.
Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.
The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people, to present them with something they didn't expect.
The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.
Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.'
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.
I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door".
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.
I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.
I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.
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.
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.
The Dracula movies are probably some of the most famous and enduring ones there are and I am very grateful to them, for sure.
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.'
Before 'Lord of the Rings,' some people would have just classed Peter Jackson as a horror director. But there is a mind there.
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.
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.
The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.
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.
There is something sad about malevolence, to be wicked. I have always tried to make that come across in the villains I have played.
I was attached to the SAS from time to time, but we are forbidden - former, present, or future - to discuss any specific operations.
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.
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.
Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.