Christopher Lee Quotes

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

When I discovered acting, I decided that's what I wanted to do above everything else. It was the first time I was passionate about anything.

When I was 17 or 18 and it was time to figure out what to do with my life, I realized that I didn't enjoy anything as much as I enjoyed playing music. I felt that I had no choice: that I had to become a musician.

I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.

Through acting and film, I felt that my life had a sense to it. I felt I had a mission.

Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to look for anything else.

Acting is my life. It's what I live and breathe.

The basic answer is that I wasn't happy or fulfilled by the job I had and I wanted my life to mean something to me, so I searched my life experience and realized that acting and performing were activities that I enjoyed all aspects of.

My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

We're very lucky people, doing something that we really love to do. I feel privileged to have been an actor all my life.

I really knew with every fiber of my being that acting was - for lack of a better word - my calling.

It's my life - acting.

Acting is only my profession.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

From a young age, I had done a lot of theater and musical theater. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with my life, but every time I was away from acting, I just felt very incomplete and a little stir crazy.

Music is something that I have to do on a regular basis. It really is my life and I absolutely love it. It's a part of my day-to-day. So if I had to choose, it would be music. But I love acting too.

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.

Acting should be an end in itself.

I've spent my life following my passion.

Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.

When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.

Acting is what I chose to do. It's what I feel I need to do.

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.

Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.