Christopher Plummer
Actor
1929-12-13 – 2021-02-05
Christopher Plummer was a Canadian actor known for stage and screen roles, including Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music. He won an Academy Award for Beginners and had a career spanning over six decades.
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Quotes by Christopher Plummer
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When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and if I'd devoted myself to it, I could have been. But it would have been too much work and a very lonely life.
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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.
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I was an only child, so I was very demanding. I enjoyed it thoroughly, but I wasn't very pleasant.
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I hate turbulence in life, but also on planes.
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I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.
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Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.
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I think of being ornate as a Victorian quality, little to do with Shakespeare. But even Dickens wasn't ornate; he wrote with flow and naturalism.
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I wasn't thrilled about 'The Sound Of Music' - not the movie itself but my role in it. Captain Von Trapp was a bore, and they tried to help by giving it a bit more cynicism, but it wasn't my favourite role. I enjoyed the music, and I loved Julie Andrews.
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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.
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