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

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.

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

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

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

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