Poll: Christopher Lee's Most Memorable Quote

Results of 235 votes:

1. 1.
   

   Christopher Lee and Caroline Munro at an event for Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)

    

   “Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.”
2. 2.
   

   Christopher Lee at an event for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

    

   “To be a legend, you’ve either got to be dead or excessively old!"
3. 3.
   

   Christopher Lee at an event for The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

    

   "One should try anything he can in his career, except folk dance and incest."
4. 4.
   

   Christopher Lee in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)

    

   "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 cha…
5. 5.
   

   Christopher Lee in Horror Express (1972)

    

   "[on doing Military Intelligence in World War II] 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 y…
6. 6.
   

   Christopher Lee in The Wicker Man (1973)

    

   “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.”
7. 7.
   

   Christopher Lee in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

    

   “People should not pass judgment until they have seen the film.”
8. 8.
   

   Christopher Lee in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

    

   "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."
9. 9.
   

   Christopher Lee in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

    

   "I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door"."
10. 10.
    

    Christopher Lee

     

    "I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me.
11. 11.
    

    #6

     

    "There are many vampires in the world today... you only have to think of the film business."
12. 12.
    

    Christopher Lee in Sleepy Hollow (1999)

     

    “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.”
13. 13.
    

    Christopher Lee in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

     

    "A real actor has to have an awful lot of imagination, and I do have a great deal."
14. 14.
    

    Christopher Lee at an event for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

     

    "I would rather have been an opera singer than anything else."
15. 15.
    

    Christopher Lee

     

    “The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn’t expect.”
16. 16.
    

    Christopher Lee in The Return of Captain Invincible (1983)

     

    "Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult."
17. 17.
    

    Christopher Lee in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

     

    "In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment."
18. 18.
    

    #10

     

    “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,…
19. 19.
    

    Christopher Lee in Triage (2009)

     

    "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 oth…
20. 20.
    

    Christopher Lee in The Wicker Man (1973)

     

    "I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it."
21. 21.
    

    Christopher Lee in Return from Witch Mountain (1978)

     

    "You can never be a proper actor without good instincts."
22. 22.
    

    "Dracula Has Risen From The Grave" Christopher Lee 1968 Warner Bros.

     

    "I have made a lot of movies, but I don't see any point in talking about films I don't think are terribly good. I have been in a few. I don't know any actor that hasn't."
23. 23.
    

    Christopher Lee in House of the Long Shadows (1983)

     

    "I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few."
24. 24.
    

    Christopher Lee in To the Devil a Daughter (1976)

     

    "If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive."
25. 25.
    

    Christopher Lee in The Devil Rides Out (1968)

     

    "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."