29+ Christopher Plummer Quotes (Dignified, Versatile And Charismatic)

Christopher Plummer is a Canadian actor who has been active in the film industry since the 1950s. He has won numerous awards, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Tony Awards. He is best known for his roles in The Sound of Music, Beginners, and Knives Out.

Top 10 Christopher Plummer Quotes

1. 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.
2. You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?
3. Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.
4. The devil is more interesting than God.
5. 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.
6. Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't think life has very much meaning.
7. 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.
8. I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
9. Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.
10. I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.

Christopher Plummer Short Quotes

• Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.
• They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.
• I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.
• I just do what I want to do, and if it's a rather interesting script - which I found.
• History remembers most what you did last.
• In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.
• The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play.
• We all live with more mortality because we're all on drugs.
• I just can't tell you what fun I've had being a member of the world's second oldest profession.
• I rather like the idea of defying death.

Christopher Plummer Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

I buried myself so much in the classics that I felt, "Well now, I've played all the big parts, whether badly or goodly, I don't give a damn, but at least I've played them all. Now, let's start again. Let's start the whole career again." And it makes you feel like you're beginning again, it really does. — Christopher Plummer

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

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

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

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

How you prepare for a role is entirely your business in my point of view. There is little enough mystery anymore left in the world in the part of our profession, which should be clouded in mystery because it isn't in the public. You don't want the magician to show his tricks or how he did them do you? So I do think that is a very private thing that we actors should protect ourselves from. — 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

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

Life Lessons by Christopher Plummer

1. Christopher Plummer's career is a testament to the power of hard work and dedication; he has worked continuously for over sixty years and has earned numerous awards and accolades for his work.
2. His ability to take on a wide range of roles and to bring a unique perspective to each of them is an inspiration to aspiring actors.
3. Christopher Plummer's career is a reminder that with enough determination and focus, anything is possible.