Christopher Lee quote: "I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan."

I don't really like long flights any more - I find them too tiring. Flying always involves the s...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think ...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and g...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

There are certain things producers ask you to do, and when I was starting out, I said yes to everyth...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours wit...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.
CHRISTOPHER LEE

As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single hand...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

When the Second World War finished, I was 23, and already I had seen enough horror to last me a life...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as eve...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

There are many vampires in the world today... you only have to think of the film business.
CHRISTOPHER LEE

Ian Fleming was my cousin, and he wanted me to play Dr. No, but by the time he got around to remembe...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.
CHRISTOPHER LEE

I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.
CHRISTOPHER LEE

Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cous...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most fam...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

Before 'Lord of the Rings,' some people would have just classed Peter Jackson as a horror di...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

My father's family can be traced back to 1400. I've been told by gypsies that there is unmis...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

The most important film I made, in terms of its subject and the great responsibility I had as an act...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. ...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

You could come in, know the proprietor, know the menu, know what you wanted to eat before you arrive...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as eve...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

I occasionally used to pop into Hammer House to say hello, cadge a drink or something and Jim was al...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

We threw a lot of rock yesterday, and we're throwing more rock this afternoon.
CHRISTOPHER LEE

There's no question that the Mac is a niche player right now. But MYOB isn't a broad-based consumer ...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

People should not pass judgment until they have seen the film.
CHRISTOPHER LEE

A whole new career opened up for me when I was in 'Lord Of The Rings' and 'Star Wars....
CHRISTOPHER LEE

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that ...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a ...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.
CHRISTOPHER LEE

I turn to the 'Telegraph's' obituaries page with trepidation.
CHRISTOPHER LEE

One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a ca...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

I'm familiar with some of the cases he was involved in, and I wanted to pay my respects.
CHRISTOPHER LEE

Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read into that what they...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm p...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

I've worked with Tim Burton five times, and it's just like being part of a family; life does...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!
CHRISTOPHER LEE

We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it wi...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn'...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous arc...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in t...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the nex...
CHRISTOPHER LEE

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national el...
CHRISTOPHER DAWSON

What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We do...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage a...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent t...
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER

My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Accurst be he that first invented war.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Confess and be hanged.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Our swords shall play the orators for us.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

What feeds me destroys me.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

There is no sin but ignorance.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hel...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up ...
CHRISTOPHER REEVE

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle a...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN

It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-communit...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet the...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some pr...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations ...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into ...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstra...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried ...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of ma...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on pu...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and Sou...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russi...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there unti...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists out...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

One always wonders about roads not taken.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER

When Caroline Kennedy managed to say 'you know' more than 200 times in an interview with the...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll b...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every t...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew m...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligi...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; thes...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as ...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do al...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the ...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in hel...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning res...
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS

Happiness is only real when shared.
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS

I now walk into the wild.
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS

I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. Non...
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS

I remember standing in the crow's nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sen...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There wer...
CHRISTOPHER ROUSE

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I've done three Broadway shows; once the curtain goes up, that's it. I mean, you prepare and...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend ...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER

I've had the good fortune of working with some amazing people. I mean, my first Broadway show wa...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
CHRISTOPHER FRY

What's really cool about LEGOs is that you can put a bunch of bricks on the table, and everybody...
CHRISTOPHER MILLER

I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not gi...
CHRISTOPHER GADSDEN

There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absu...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

That's the most amazing thing about writing, whether it's in prose or comics: that you can c...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER

Historically, diversity has been a real issue for superhero comics - so we need to do something abou...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER

To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of ...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER

Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to sp...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER

'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER

My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER

The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent ...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER

I'm an internet junkie. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? I also have a thing ...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a compute...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER

I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary ...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER

'Doctor Who' is where my love of science fiction and fantasy started. I was introduced to it...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER

Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main charact...
ADAM CHRISTOPHER

But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a ...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to cha...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to g...
CHRISTOPHER BOND

I accidentally saw David Byrne's last two songs in Prospect Park at a free concert because I cam...
CHRISTOPHER MCCULLOCH

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particula...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets y...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Reality TV has blown away the need for a roster of familiar faces in films. Plus, films became franc...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others ...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, pu...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over.
CHRISTOPHER ATKINS

When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you g...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE

Come live with me, and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON

Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of priv...
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT

The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that ...
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT

...a minority is only thought of as a minority if it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without ...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

They were different colors: the right one blue, the left green. And her face in the light of the can...
NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-styl...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our und...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for gra...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I'm crepuscular.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infec...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg s...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim under...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being hu...
CHRISTOPHER LEACH

When I went back to Iraq again, after the liberation was complete, I was myself engaged on a sort of...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien', '...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Infinite riches in a little room.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
CHRISTOPHER QUILL

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place,...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country whe...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtes...
CHRISTOPHER RICKS

Only the sinner has a right to preach.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you your...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires so much attention.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and earning.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every tele...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is o...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....
CHRISTOPHER MOORE

I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE

One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hun...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, the...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and supers...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On ever...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan.

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