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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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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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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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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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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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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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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I am completely opposed to the concept of big data.
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Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.
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Do I believe in plastic surgery? Yes, if something is wrong and you can modify it. For certain people, it's right.
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I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.
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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.
