Christopher Lee Quotes

As an actor, you think to yourself, 'I want to do good work,' but you also want the work that you do to make an impact in some way.

I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that.

I love playing villains.

I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.

I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.

Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.

I would like to do a nice comedy/drama feature with a good part, but nobody's asked me to do a film. Maybe it's because they don't know what to do with a guy in a dress.

When I began my journey in films, I never thought I'd be playing the lead in my films and was keen to move ahead with roles that give me scope to act.

It is a nice feeling when the audience reaches out to me by my character names from the films that I have done.

Playing a villain would be great.

It gives me a chance to explore so many dynamics - that's what we actors dream of doing. So, I love playing the villain.

I am a very blessed actor because I have always got the chance to portray various characters.

In normal life, we are all sweet and not vamp. So, to play a villain a lot of focus is required.

An actor can grow stale in a bad part. Actors grow stale, generally, because there's no demand on them.

Standup led me to acting because I liked standup, and I saw people on a stage, and the closest, nearest thing to me was doing plays. It was like, that's the same thing as standup - people are on a stage; they're being seen and saying things - so, because of my love of standup, I moved towards acting.

I think a natural evolution for me would be to try to transfer over into the film and TV world and start playing different characters. Hopefully, that way, I can keep entertaining my fans that are fans of me, in different avenues and different spotlights. It's a natural evolution.

When I developed the Ultimate Warrior character and kept evolving the character, I knew, there was no question that it would work because it was working.

I just want to keep doing my comedy work because that's what I do. I made a name for myself playing other characters.

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

As an actor, it's very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.

It's every actor's dream to be called the character's name.

The goal, when you're playing a character that's super beloved from a movie, is to honor what the actor before you has done and then really just expand, which is what you get to do in a musical because you have songs, choreography, and everything is happening in real time.

I'm an actor by choice and I love facing the camera. There's a little bit of exhibitionism in all of us. We like the limelight.

People say to me, 'Why do you do these ugly parts?' And it's because at the end of the day, I'm an actress, and I crave the dark and the light within one job.