Christopher Plummer Quotes
A lot of people want to retire; I couldn't. You don't retire in our business. What, play golf and watch television? Oh, please.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.
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Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.
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I'm a geek to the bone.
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It was a distance about twice as long as this room; then there was a wall, and just beyond it the crematory. When the wind blew in at the south I got smoke in my cell. It was a fat smoke, big flakes of smoke - human smoke.
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As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them... It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still.
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A lot of people want to retire; I couldn't. You don't retire in our business. What, play golf and watch television? Oh, please.
