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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. "

Christopher Lee

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" 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. "

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" The most important film I made, in terms of its subject and the great responsibility I had as an actor, was a film I did about the founder of Pakistan called 'Jinnah.' "

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" I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers. "

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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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" 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. "

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" I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am. "

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" I am never going to stop playing the villain. I would be foolish to do so because the audiences apparently enjoy watching me, and who am I to say no? "

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" Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina. "

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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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" Not every Hammer film was perfect. "

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" The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams. "

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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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" To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old! "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I was attached to the SAS from time to time, but we are forbidden - former, present, or future - to discuss any specific operations. "

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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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" On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it. "

Christopher Lee

" 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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Change The World

" There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing. "

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