Quotes from Patrick Macnee

Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.

They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.

Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.