Christopher Plummer Professions : Theatre actor Born : December 13, 1929 Browse All Authors Top 45 quotes by Christopher Plummer 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. Christopher Plummer insulting evil smoking I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now what do you think you think about then? The future? In the future I'm going to do this? Become that? What future? No. What you think is, 'How will I be regarded in the end?' Christopher Plummer aging talking thinking I just do what I want to do, and if it's a rather interesting script - which I found. Christopher Plummer interesting I rather like the idea of defying death. Christopher Plummer I don't want death to suddenly interrupt what I'm doing. I don't like the idea of death at all. Christopher Plummer We all live with more mortality because we're all on drugs. Christopher Plummer mortality drug I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill. Christopher Plummer quills computer use I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days. Christopher Plummer these-days knows I hate turbulence in life, but also on planes. Christopher Plummer also planes hate life They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop. Christopher Plummer playing old alive dying The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play. Christopher Plummer because thought me play 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. Christopher Plummer i-am hell work culture I admire Ridley Scott, and I'm thrilled to be making a movie for him. Christopher Plummer making him admire movie I'm used to big roles and lots of words. Christopher Plummer words big used roles Oh, I don't have any religious beliefs. Christopher Plummer oh beliefs any religious I think of being ornate as a Victorian quality, little to do with Shakespeare. But even Dickens wasn't ornate; he wrote with flow and naturalism. Christopher Plummer being think quality flow We used to listen to Lionel Barrymore do 'A Christmas Carol' on the radio long ago, and I like Reginald Owen, who played Scrooge in the first treatment for the screen. But my favorite Scrooge was Alastair Sim. He was enchanting, an absolutely beautiful performance. Christopher Plummer performance christmas beautiful long In Montreal, when I grew up, I'd go to the Notre-Dame Basilica, a gorgeous cathedral in town. I'd listen to huge symphony orchestras, Pavarotti singing operas; that was absolutely marvelous. I like that aspect of the cathedral, the spectacle. Christopher Plummer listen go like singing I was always a happy kid. I'd play the piano fairly well. I did all sorts of things fairly well. But who the hell wants to be happy all the time? It's a miserable state to be in permanently. Can you imagine how dreary that would be? Christopher Plummer be-happy you happy time I actually was brought up by an Airedale. I don't really remember my parents, especially my mother. It was only the dog that I saw. Christopher Plummer parents dog mother remember Similar Authors Ian McDiarmid theatre-actor Corey Reynolds theatre-actor Gedde Watanabe theatre-actor Erica Tazel theatre-actor Luke Kirby theatre-actor Michael Dolan theatre-actor All Authors