Christopher Plummer Quotes

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Christopher Plummer

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 13, 1929

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

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I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

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I wasn't thrilled about 'The Sound Of Music' - not the movie itself but my role in it. Captain Von Trapp was a bore, and they tried to help by giving it a bit more cynicism, but it wasn't my favourite role. I enjoyed the music, and I loved Julie Andrews.

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Oh, I don't have any religious beliefs.

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I love trying to give some flesh to rather naked bones sometimes. I've always felt it my duty and to try and bring on the character's off-stage life, what happened that is not revealed.

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In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

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The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play.

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I think of being ornate as a Victorian quality, little to do with Shakespeare. But even Dickens wasn't ornate; he wrote with flow and naturalism.

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I hate turbulence in life, but also on planes.

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Never forget your sense of humour.

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Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.

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I admire Ridley Scott, and I'm thrilled to be making a movie for him.

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I actually was brought up by an Airedale. I don't really remember my parents, especially my mother. It was only the dog that I saw.

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Simon Pegg is terribly talented, very funny, such a delicious sense of humour.

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I think anger does fuel a successful acting career. To play the great roles, you have to learn how to blaze.

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I think a lot of directors over the years have cast me because they see something of another generation in me: you know, certain people look like they've come from the 19th century. Because I have classical background I suppose that is more suitable to patriarchal roles and easily infuses them.

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I've done a lot of pictures that are ensemble, and I've not always liked the people I was working with, but that doesn't make any difference because you do the job, and often it turns out to be a great ensemble even if you didn't particularly really like anybody.

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Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

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The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

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When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and if I'd devoted myself to it, I could have been. But it would have been too much work and a very lonely life.

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