Christopher Plummer

“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.”

“I’m too old-fashioned to use a computer.  I’m too old-fashioned to use a quill.”

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

“They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.”

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

“It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice.  So I had to work like hell to flatten those R’s.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.”