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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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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 thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.
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I did play Ramses II once, who lived to be 91 and had 120 children, but he died 4,000 years ago.
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Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.
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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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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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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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To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!
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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 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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Not every Hammer film was perfect.
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I haven't done lots of horror.
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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 first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.
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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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When the Second World War finished, I was 23, and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. So seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.
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I turn to the 'Telegraph's' obituaries page with trepidation.
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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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There are many vampires in the world today... you only have to think of the film business.
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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.
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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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Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read into that what they like.
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I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me.
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A whole new career opened up for me when I was in 'Lord Of The Rings' and 'Star Wars.'
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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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It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.
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Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.
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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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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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