The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.

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.

I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it. Having seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of shell. But you had to. You had to. Otherwise, we would never have won.

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.

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

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

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.