I don't play long parts. They must be short parts, but they've got to be parts that mean something, that matter, where people will notice when I'm on the screen, and people will remember the character after they've seen the film.

It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.

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.

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

Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, 'What are you going to do now you're out of uniform?' I said, 'I'm pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,' and he said, 'Have you thought about being an actor?'

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

Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.