Christopher Lee Quotes

I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A.

There is nothing in our experience that can capture the fear that Israelis now live with every hour of every day, where allowing your children to go to a pizza parlor or a disco or just to play in the park can be a choice between life and death.

I don't like Johannesburg, where I grew up. Everybody lives in 'gated' buildings, is paranoid about crime and is always talking about being mugged. It's not a very joyful place.

Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

There is a psychic cost children bear when they grow up in fear.

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

L.A. kind of scares me.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

I don't like going into the basement. I'm always afraid that something's going to blow up.

Most of us don't have to worry about being shot if we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

Once you know how completely and suddenly the earth can open up at your feet and the worst can happen, it also, paradoxically, leaves you more afraid of everything else.

I was frightened. I hadn't really had any experience, and then all of a sudden I was thrown straight into doing interviews. Most people have build-up. I had none.

I had a recurring stress dream since I was a kid 10 years old. My friend Travis is driving, and I'm afraid we're going to get in trouble. We keep passing people I recognize, and no one is doing anything. Travis keeps driving faster. I've had that dream a long time.

Basically, I think that Gotham is all of our urban nightmares and fears made into reality. Instead of hearing footsteps from behind you while you walk down the streets, turning around and finding nobody there, there is somebody there.

It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

There are many people who live with terrorism every day.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

I still feel I'm going to wake up any moment, and my skin's going to break out all over.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

I think the idea of losing your hair is still very potent, emotional thing.