My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet – something I don’t get very often. – Christopher Lee
I have made a lot of movies, but I don’t see any point in talking about films I don’t think are terribly good. I have been in a few. I don’t know any actor that hasn’t. – Christopher Lee
When I was very young – around the age of nine – my family used to go to a house in Somerset that my stepfather rented every summer. There was fishing, lakes and riding. – Christopher Lee
When the Second World War finished, I was 23, and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I’d seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. So seeing horror depicted on film doesn’t affect me much. – 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
Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting – I sing and I’ve written books, for instance – but acting is what keeps me going: it’s what I do; it gives life purpose. – 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
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
Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them. – Christopher Lee
I don’t really like long flights any more – I find them too tiring. Flying always involves the same things these days – huge crowds at airports, waiting around, late take-offs, weather problems, and so on. I don’t really enjoy travelling. I don’t imagine anyone does except young children. – 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 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 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. – 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
One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons. – Christopher Lee
I’ve always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I’ve always said I’m very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful. – Christopher Lee
There are many vampires in the world today… you only have to think of the film business. – 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
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
Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and give them a part – not because they think that person is right for it or is ready for it, but because they think that person will make them money. – 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
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
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. – Christopher Lee
