Plummer Quotes

#1. Christopher Plummer once told me that he never orders a wine without first confirming that the restaurant has a second bottle in case he loves it.

Kenneth Cranham

#2. The devil is more interesting than God.

Christopher Plummer

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

Christopher Plummer

#4. I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.

Christopher Plummer

#5. History remembers most what you did last.

Christopher Plummer

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

Christopher Plummer

#7. I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

Christopher Plummer

#8. Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.

Amanda Plummer

#9. I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.

Amanda Plummer

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

Christopher Plummer

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

Christopher Plummer

#12. 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

#13. the availability heuristic. We draw on what is readily available as truth and generalize this information as knowledge.

Deborah L. Plummer

#14. I don't play roles everybody likes. I'd rather have a career I'm proud of. Like everyone else, I need to eat. But I'm a very unbusinesslike person, and I keep my price low. I'm not a mass product. I'm not everyone's cup of tea.

Amanda Plummer

#15. 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

#16. I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.

Amanda Plummer

#17. I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them.

Amanda Plummer

#18. Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you're ever going to know the best you were meant to be.

Christopher Plummer

#19. Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't think life has very much meaning.

Christopher Plummer

#20. 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

#21. Freddy prayed silently. "Help me to love people for who they are inside." The

Maggie Plummer

#22. 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.

Christopher Plummer

#23. As a rule of thumb, if a verb or phrase is about wishes, emotions, doubt, denial, recommendations, knowledge and understanding, then there's a strong possibility the Subjunctive will follow.

Linda Plummer

#24. Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way.

Amanda Plummer

#25. They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

Christopher Plummer

#26. I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.

Amanda Plummer

#27. In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

Christopher Plummer

#28. I like taking a path into new country, and I always take the darker path. Not because it's dark, but because there's a secret there that you can share when you get out. That's what I liked as a kid. That's how I approach my work. With a face like mine, it's lucky I have a heart that likes that.

Amanda Plummer

#29. 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.

Christopher Plummer

#30. You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?

Christopher Plummer

#31. Not the challenges necessarily, but the way in which you get ready because your technique has improved over the years and you perhaps know how to be more economical than perhaps you used to be when you tried to work perhaps too hard.

Christopher Plummer

#32. Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.

Christopher Plummer

#33. A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time, never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature.

Christopher Plummer

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

Christopher Plummer