Christopher Plummer

I just do what I want to do, and if it's a rather interesting script - which I found.

— Christopher Plummer

I'm used to big roles and lots of words.

— Christopher Plummer

I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now what do you think you think about…

— Christopher Plummer

I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.

— Christopher Plummer

I just can't tell you what fun I've had being a member of the world's second oldest profession.

— Christopher Plummer

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out…

— Christopher Plummer

Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you're ever going to…

— Christopher Plummer

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

— Christopher Plummer

I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered…

— Christopher Plummer

I was always a happy kid. I'd play the piano fairly well. I did all sorts of things fairly well. But who…

— Christopher Plummer

I think a lot of directors over the years have cast me because they see something of another generation in me: you…

— Christopher Plummer

Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up…

— Christopher Plummer

In Montreal, when I grew up, I'd go to the Notre-Dame Basilica, a gorgeous cathedral in town. I'd listen to huge symphony…

— Christopher Plummer

The devil is more interesting than God.

— Christopher Plummer

I don't want death to suddenly interrupt what I'm doing. I don't like the idea of death at all.

— Christopher Plummer

We all live with more mortality because we're all on drugs.

— Christopher Plummer

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

— Christopher Plummer

A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time, never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes…

— Christopher Plummer

Most actors come from the streets, and their rise to fame is guided by a natural anger. It was harder to find…

— Christopher Plummer

Not the challenges necessarily, but the way in which you get ready because your technique has improved over the years and you…

— Christopher Plummer

I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.

— Christopher Plummer

If the movie is terrible you can have fun. You can joke about it and have a ball. The movie is already…

— Christopher Plummer

We used to listen to Lionel Barrymore do 'A Christmas Carol' on the radio long ago, and I like Reginald Owen, who…

— Christopher Plummer

I'm insatiably ambitious.

— Christopher Plummer

I love trying to give some flesh to rather naked bones sometimes. I've always felt it my duty and to try and…

— Christopher Plummer