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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.

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'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.
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Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.
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I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it. Having seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of shell. But you had to. You had to. Otherwise, we would never have won.
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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 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.
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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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The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.
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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.
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People should not pass judgment until they have seen the film.
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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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Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, 'What are you going to do now you're out of uniform?' I said, 'I'm pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,' and he said, 'Have you thought about being an actor?'
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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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The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.
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I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.
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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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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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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.
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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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I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, An open door.
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If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.
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