Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBEwas an English actor, singer, and author. With a career spanning nearly 70 years, Lee initially portrayed villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogyand The Hobbit film trilogy, and Count Dooku in the final two films of...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth27 May 1922
CityLondon, England
It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.
I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, 'an open door.'
Once asked if he felt wearied by the constant onslaught of autograph seekers, actor Gregory Peck replied that he would be more worried when they stopped asking.
In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.
I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.
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.
People should not pass judgment until they have seen the film.
If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.
The song "My Way" is a very remarkable song. It is also difficult to sing because you've got to convince people that what you're singing about is the truth. It's a man who is very proud of having achieved everything that he's achieved his way.
I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me.
Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.
Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.
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.
Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.