There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I….

You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make mo….

I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life..

I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I've enjoyed mak….

That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, b….

My criterion for accepting a role isn't based on what I would like to do. I try to consider what the audience would like to see me do and I thought k….

Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do..

As far back as I can ever remember, without really knowing it I wanted to be an actor. I was always dressing up, you know, playing pretend, putting o….

People look at me as if I were some sort of monster, but I can't think why. In my macabre pictures, I have either been a monster-maker or a monster-d….

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of t….

I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top….

Todays youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will l….