"A lot of great people have seen people portray them and loathed them. But I did my best and I don't think there is anything to be offended at. " - 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 couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal. " - Christopher Plummer
"I knew Mike Wallace. He interviewed me once when I played on Broadway and I had met him once before that too. So he was already in my head. I didn't have to do an immense amount of research. I was given some footage of Mike Wallace off-camera, which was very valuable. " - Christopher Plummer
"I steered clear of all those political intrigues, particularly when you're having to play a character. So I have to shut my eyes and ears to that. " - Christopher Plummer
"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
"I was going to do Volpone, because I want to try all the outrageous, funny clown parts. It's hopeless, it's too unwieldy. It doesn't work. " - Christopher Plummer
"I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days. " - Christopher Plummer
"I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill. " - Christopher Plummer
"I've written about the early Montreal days, which I knew very well. I knew every bar-there were about 345 of them-so I have some damn good stories to tell. " - Christopher Plummer
"In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write. " - 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
"It is so fashionable-this topic. People are dropping like flies as we speak. I think it will help scare people away from cigarettes. " - Christopher Plummer
"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
"My publisher in New York-Knopf, which is pretty damn good-keeps telling me, Get out of Canada as fast as you can. " - Christopher Plummer
"Oh, all right, I'll do King Lear. " - Christopher Plummer
"The drama critic for The Montreal Gazette gave me a good review in a high-school production of Pride and Prejudice. It went to my head. " - Christopher Plummer
"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
"The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play. " - Christopher Plummer
"They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop. " - Christopher Plummer
"Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine. " - Christopher Plummer