Patrick Macnee Quotes

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• Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this…
• It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something…
• I was producing a series about Sir Winston Churchill, about which I was extremely proud, and earning a lot of money as a producer.
• Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
• I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
• And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple of men.
• The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money, romance, any of…
• Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
• The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
• I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the…
• I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that…
• I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.
• So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I…
• The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up…
• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own…
• But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
• And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers.…
• And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really,…
• These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word…
• They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.

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