If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.

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

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.

I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me.

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

I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door".

There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.