Christopher Plummer Quotes

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I was a bit bored with the character [Captain Georg von Trapp]. Although we worked hard enough to make him interesting, it was a bit like flogging a dead horse. And the subject matter is not mine. I mean, it can't appeal to every person in the world.

Christopher Plummer
Working with her is like being hit over the head by a Valentine's Day card.

Christopher Plummer
I love what I'm doing on the screen, particularly now. The roles are getting richer and more interesting as I grow older — I'm very lucky. Or maybe there's nobody left, at my age. I have no competition anymore because I am the oldest man on earth.

Christopher Plummer
Drinking was particularly fun and fashionable in the '50s. Drugs started to creep in and do their rather remote work in the late '60s and '70s. And then in the '80s and '90s everyone started to get terribly serious — drinking water all the time — or taking drugs. Poor old booze took a back seat.

Christopher Plummer
I loved the script because I thought it made Tolstoy — who I always thought was rather dry — seem full of humanity and humor.

Christopher Plummer
When I went to see [Up], I thought, 'My god, what an absolutely marvelous movie this is. I mean it really is human. It really has everything in it. And that's the sort of thing that surprises you and that's the pleasant one when you can't dream of what it's going to look like and there it is, much more thrilling than you ever dreamed it would be.

Christopher Plummer
There were so many nuns around [the The Sound of Music set], I was determined to play Peck's Bad Boy and be the naughty fellow. Well it needed somebody naughty to keep it away from mawkish sentimentality.

Christopher Plummer
I'm glad to see [drinking is] coming back these days, particularly in the young — at least they've got good taste. Because I could never connect with my friends who were on drugs. They were in a totally gaga world, but at least booze — you could be violent, you could be funny, you could tell stories. It was a much more gregarious form of anathematizement.

Christopher Plummer
These young actors are not trained enough. They jump into television and want to be stars without doing any work. And they do become stars, but will it last?

Christopher Plummer
In my book I call [The Sound of Music] 'S&M'. An abbreviated version. But I'm grateful for it because it certainly was famous and put me in the public eye and I could help fill a theater when I was doing the great works.

Christopher Plummer