"I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door"."
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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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"I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts."
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"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."
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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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"You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it."
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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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"When I first read Lord of the Rings I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time the technology wasn't there, there was no such thing as CGI."
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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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"To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old."
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"It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners."
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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 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 character after they've seen the film."
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"In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment."
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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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"I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me."
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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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"I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few."
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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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"Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult."
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