Christopher Lee Quotes

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor.

I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.

I followed a girl I met in Japan to Los Angeles and ended up working in a motorcycle store. I quit the job one night, went to a party in the Hollywood Hills and ended up yelling at a bunch of people. Someone saw me yelling and asked me to be in a play. The first night, there was an agent in the audience who took me on and sent me out for jobs.

I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.

I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

I love doing impressions.

I wish I could have performed with Jeff Buckley, but I missed my chance.

War is show business.

Nothing makes a career like a war.

I love war because of the fame that goes with it; but were I not a Prince I should devote myself entirely to philosophy. After all, every one in this world must have his trade.

It is from the pride and ambition of rulers and the ignorance of the people that wars arise.

Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.

War is uncertain, precisely because it is political and human.

War is far more spectacular than peace. Peace, on the other hand, requires patience, discretion and determination in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place. But I kept on acting, and eventually, I just dropped out of school and continued acting.

I hope I get the chance to keep acting in great projects.

I was causing trouble in high school, and in order to get me to stop and to pass, they put me into theater, and I ended up winning a Shakespeare competition. All I had to do was imitate people properly, and I ended up going to the finals when I was about 16.

Certain people get an opportunity because they happen to be in the right place at the right time. It has no bearing on their talent. I don't think we should look at it and feel bitter about it. That's the way the cookie crumbles in all professions.

Acting and performing is part of who I am.

Luck plays an important role in Bollywood. We all work really hard to earn success but our luck has to be on the right side, especially from where I come from.

Actors are a peculiar breed.

I'd say that acting is a side project for Jack.

It's a blessing that I get to play such diverse roles.