Quotes by Patrick Macnee - Page 1

If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Macho
Sean
Connery
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I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Buck
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I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Delighted
Has Beens
Shows
Preserved
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Awful Lot
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I loved Ingrid Bergman. I sat and saw her on the stage in a theater in the round.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Bergman
Sat
Round
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
War
Saws
Second World War
World
All My Friends
War World Know
World War
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Avengers
Appeal
Linda
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Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Ghastly
Invention
Lovely
Style
Television
Theater
Aspects
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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.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Acting
Aggravation
Nine
Nine Months
School
Acting School
Know School Acting
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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.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Avengers
Me People New
Me People Fat
Fat
New People
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The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Compare
Gentleman
First Thing
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I was producing a series about Sir Winston Churchill, about which I was extremely proud, and earning a lot of money as a producer.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Earning
Producers
Proud
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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.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Camps
Holocaust
People
Radio
Allowed
Center
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And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple of men.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Men
Couple
Directors
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Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Blue
California
Grey
Sunny
Skies
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I'd grown up with a lot of women. My mother was a famous lesbian in the '20s and '30s, and I grew up with only women, so I was used to getting on with them.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Grown
Lesbian
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I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name - Steed's name.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Broadway
Pride
Fill
Great Pride
Recalling
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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 love actors.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Darling
Fascination
Lovely
Play
Skills
Writing
Plays
Skill
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Enjoy
Extraordinary
Retirement
Wonderful
Life Time Way
Stopped
Notice
Wonderful Thing
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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 best actor I've ever seen on the movies.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Actors
Bogart
Wells
Acted
Edward
Robinson
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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 long - 81.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Accomplished
Accomplishment
Done
Long
Patronizing
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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 those things. So you underplay it.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Character
Romance
Strange
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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 against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Jobs
Danger
Forty
People
Thirty
Years
Years Ago
Remember People Know
Forty Years
Websites
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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. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Censored
Newspapers
Second World War
Allowed
World War
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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 no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Citizen Kane
Citizens
Film
Mean
Anyway
Citizen
Welles
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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, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Ordinary
Commercials
Developed
Gradually
Review
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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 for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Bird
Bits
Crumbs
Human Beings
Arrive
Beings
Develop
Word
Picking
Settle
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I missed so much of the Swinging Sixties by working. From 1961 to 1969, I got up at 4.30 A.M., a car came for me at 5.30 A.M., and I was taken to our studio at Teddington or Elstree, and we filmed until I got home at 9.30 P.M., five days a week.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Car Home Me
Missed
Sixties
Swinging
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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 house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Caught
Crime
England
Homosexual
House
Talking
Years
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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 - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Acting
Avengers
Example
People
Thinking
Work Good People
Background
Fitted
Good Example
Parts
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Everest
Heaven
Magnificent
Life Death Fear
Climb
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I'm not surprised 'The Avengers' has such enduring popularity, because it was a groundbreaking series that changed television. It was the first show that put its leading man and leading lady on an equal footing and showed a woman fighting and kicking and throwing men around. That was a radical departure in its time.
Patrick Macnee / Actor
Avengers
Departure
Throwing
Time Men Man
Enduring
Footing
Lady
Leading Man
Surprised
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