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

Categorized in : Performance Long Beautiful Christmas

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 scr... by Christopher Plummer

I just do what I want to do, and if it's a rather interesting script - which I found.

Christopher Plummer

I rather like the idea of defying death. by Christopher Plummer

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... by 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. by Christopher Plummer

We all live with more mortality because we're all on drugs.

Christopher Plummer

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to... by Christopher Plummer

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... by Christopher Plummer

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. by Christopher Plummer

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... by Christopher Plummer

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,... by Christopher Plummer

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... by Christopher Plummer

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. by Christopher Plummer

I'm used to big roles and lots of words.

Christopher Plummer

words big used roles

Oh, I don't have any religious beliefs. by Christopher Plummer

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

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

Some of the best casts I've ever worked with have been dogs. by Christopher Plummer

Some of the best casts I've ever worked with have been dogs.

Christopher Plummer

dogs some been best