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To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old.
Christopher Lee
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Christopher Lee
Age: 93 †
Born: 1922
Born: May 27
Died: 2015
Died: June 7
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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.
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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.
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Someone asked me yesterday if Dracula met Saruman and there was a fight, who would win. I just looked at this man. What an idiotic thing to say. I mean, really, it was half-witted.
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You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.
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I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of our everyday world. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.
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It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.
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People should not pass judgment until they have seen the film.
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The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people, to present them with something they didn't expect.
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I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts.
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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. Seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.
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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.
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As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.
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I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.
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If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.
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The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.
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In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.
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'.
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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.
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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
I don't play long parts. They must be short parts, but they've got to be parts that mean something, that matter, where people will notice when I'm on the screen, and people will remember the character after they've seen the film.
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