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I mean, everyone says Citizen...

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.

Patrick Macnee 32 quotes

These things don't just come,...

These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.

Patrick Macnee 32 quotes

I like most of the Humphrey B...

I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.

Patrick Macnee 32 quotes

I'm not surprised 'The Avenge...

I'm not surprised 'The Avengers' has such enduring popularity, because it was a groundbreaking series that changed television. It was the first show that put its leading man and leading lady on an equal footing and showed a woman fighting and kicking and throwing men around. That was a radical departure in its time.

Patrick Macnee 32 quotes

Who'd give up sunny Californi...

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.

Patrick Macnee 32 quotes

Linda Thorson was a great act...

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

Patrick Macnee 32 quotes

Accomplishment is such a patr...

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

Patrick Macnee 32 quotes

I loved Ingrid Bergman. I sat...

I loved Ingrid Bergman. I sat and saw her on the stage in a theater in the round.

Patrick Macnee 32 quotes

They call it The New Avengers...

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.

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It doesn't work that way, you...

It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.

Patrick Macnee 32 quotes

I was producing a series abou...

I was producing a series about Sir Winston Churchill, about which I was extremely proud, and earning a lot of money as a producer.

Patrick Macnee 32 quotes

I missed so much of the Swing...

I missed so much of the Swinging Sixties by working. From 1961 to 1969, I got up at 4.30 A.M., a car came for me at 5.30 A.M., and I was taken to our studio at Teddington or Elstree, and we filmed until I got home at 9.30 P.M., five days a week.

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I'd grown up with a lot of wo...

I'd grown up with a lot of women. My mother was a famous lesbian in the '20s and '30s, and I grew up with only women, so I was used to getting on with them.

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I'm not afraid of death. What...

I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?

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And in the Second World War, ...

And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.

Patrick Macnee 32 quotes

Television has some lovely as...

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

Patrick Macnee 32 quotes

If I was Sean Connery, I woul...

If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.

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I was absolutely delighted th...

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

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And that's what happened to t...

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.

Patrick Macnee 32 quotes

The only danger about website...

The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

Patrick Macnee 32 quotes

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