Quotes from Christopher Plummer

I hate turbulence in life, but also on planes.

I've done a lot of pictures that are ensemble, and I've not always liked the people I was working with, but that doesn't make any difference because you do the job, and often it turns out to be a great ensemble even if you didn't particularly really like anybody.

I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.

I love trying to give some flesh to rather naked bones sometimes. I've always felt it my duty and to try and bring on the character's off-stage life, what happened that is not revealed.

Never forget your sense of humour.

I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.

My great-grandfather was prime minister of Canada, and I had a very Edwardian upbringing. It was a beautiful, romantic way of growing up, until the family lost its money. And I decided to be bad and rough and find the streets rather than the gates.

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

Most actors come from the streets, and their rise to fame is guided by a natural anger. It was harder to find that rage coming from a gentle background.

The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play.

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and if I'd devoted myself to it, I could have been. But it would have been too much work and a very lonely life.

I'm insatiably ambitious.

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.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.