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Christopher Plummer
Canadian
Actor
About the author
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,
Canadian
Actor
#Work
#American
#Hell
#Culture
#English
#Voice
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,
Canadian
Actor
#Life
#People
#Famous
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,
Canadian
Actor
#Public
#Being
#Evil
#Smoking
#Guests
They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.
Christopher Plummer,
Canadian
Actor
#Old
#Dying
Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.
Christopher Plummer,
Canadian
Actor
The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play.
Christopher Plummer,
Canadian
Actor
#Play
#Thought
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,
Canadian
Actor
#Time
#First
#Talking
#Father
In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.
Christopher Plummer,
Canadian
Actor
I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
Christopher Plummer,
Canadian
Actor
#Old
#Computer
I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.
Christopher Plummer,
Canadian
Actor
#Movies
I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.
Christopher Plummer,
Canadian
Actor
#First
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,
Canadian
Actor
#Want
#Today