Johnny Depp, as far as I'm concerned, is number one. Of his generation, there's no one who can touch him. Some performers, today, it's like looking at holes in the air.

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 didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few.

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.

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

Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.