I have been metal all my life, only I did not know about it. The people in this album (Charlemagne) and I, share the same values.

I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well-known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.

I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.

I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.

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

We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.

When the Second World War finished, I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. Seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.