Christopher Lee quotes

89th Birthday

Admin — Fri, 27 May 2011 16:15:19 +0000

I am very grateful for all your birthday wishes, which I greatly appreciate. I hope that you will be able to send the same messages in one year’s time.

Thank you all for your continuous support over the years. It is because of you that I am able to keep on doing the work I love.

— Christopher Lee

Seve

Admin — Sun, 08 May 2011 13:47:36 +0000

"I have many photographs of myself with Seve Ballesteros. There is one which is most valuable to me which says in Spanish “To Christopher with a strong embrace”. He was a golfing genius, with whom I played many times. He was also a very dear friend. I shall never forget him."

Christopher Lee

Special Operations Executive

Admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:47:42 +0000

"When people say to me, you know, were you in this? Were you in that? Did you work in this? Did you work in that? I always used to say `Can you keep a secret?` And they would say `Yes, yes` and I would say "So can I."

— Christopher Lee

WWII

Admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:46:32 +0000

"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."

— Christopher Lee

Peter Cushing

Admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:45:20 +0000

"I don`t want to sound gloomy, but, at some point of your lives, every one of you will notice that you have in your life one person, one friend whom you love and care for very much. That person is so close to you that you are able to share some things only with him. For example, you can call that friend, and from the very first maniacal laugh or some other joke you will know who is at the other end of that line. We used to do that with him so often. And then when that person is gone, there will be nothing like that in your life ever again".

— Christopher Lee

Today's young actors

Admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:44:20 +0000

— Christopher Lee

Choices

Admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:42:24 +0000

"One should try anything he can in his career, except folkdance and incest - on the Rhapsody DVD documentary special edition of "The dark secret". "

— Christopher Lee

Lucky to be working

Admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:41:16 +0000

"Acting is like a snowstorm or perhaps a large empty vacuum. I`m not deluded by the fact that I`m getting all these offers for work, I`m very happy about it, but I know also that there is the other side and who knows, next year, they may not offer me anything. You never know. "

— Christopher Lee

The Curse of Frankenstein

Admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:39:30 +0000

"I was asked to play the creature chiefly because of my size and height which had effectively kept me out of many pictures I might have appeared in during the preceding ten years. Most British stars flatly refused to have me anywhere near them in a film, because I was easily the tallest man around."

— Christopher Lee

A life of Metal

Admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:38:15 +0000

"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

Price & Cushing

Admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:35:32 +0000

"They were both grand masters, of their art but more importantly as human beings...wonderful people, wonderful actors and I miss them very very much. "

— Christopher Lee

WWII

Admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:32:40 +0000

"When you`re involved in a war it`s the old saying `if your name`s written on the bullet, there`s nothing you can do about it`. So you just banished it from your mind. Of course I was scared on some occasions and anyone who says they aren`t scared during an operation probably isn`t telling the truth. I know about six people who had no fear. Literally none. Whether that was due to a lack of imagination or because they`d conquered it, I don`t know. In fact one was Iain Duncan Smith`s father, who was one of my closest friends. But during a war, people are taught to kill and they have the blessings of the authorities to do so, so if it`s your life or somebody else`s, you want to be quite sure it`s not yours."

— Christopher Lee

Peter Cushing

Admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:30:45 +0000

"He really was the most gentle and generous of men. I have often said he died because he was too good for this world. "

— Christopher Lee

Last Hammer Dracula

Admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:29:30 +0000

"I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing him into the contemporary day and age, that it really no longer had any meaning."

— Christopher Lee

Star Wars

Admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:28:00 +0000

(on the technology used to film Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)):

"The advances have been phenomenal. There is a monitor on the camera there that is static, a monitor on the crane, and all these monitors scattered all over the place. What he`s seeing is what you will see when you see the movie."

— Christopher Lee