Patrick Macnee Quotes

United Kingdom, Actor
February 6, 1922 – June, 25, 2015.

Daniel Patrick Macnee (6 February 1922 – 25 June 2015) was an English film and television actor. He was best known for his role as the secret agent John Steed in the British television series The Avengers.

Also known as Film Actor

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
- Home
- Working
- Week
Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

Patrick Macnee
- Television
- Invention

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
- Great
- Better
- Citizen
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
- Time
- Men
- Man
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
- Best
- Like
- Movies