Quotations and phrases - Patrick Macnee

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.
-- Patrick Macnee

And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
-- Patrick Macnee

And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.
-- Patrick Macnee

And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple of men.
-- Patrick Macnee

But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
-- Patrick Macnee

I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.
-- Patrick Macnee

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.
-- Patrick Macnee

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.
-- Patrick Macnee

I was producing a series about Sir Winston Churchill, about which I was extremely proud, and earning a lot of money as a producer.
-- Patrick Macnee

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
-- Patrick Macnee

It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
-- Patrick Macnee

It was male chauvinism, as you must realize, in the 1960s, particularly in the entertainment business, which was pretty repulsive.
-- Patrick Macnee

No, I was working in Canada. In fact, the man who asked me to be in The Avengers, I told him, what do I need to be in that, I'm a producer now.
-- Patrick Macnee

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.
-- Patrick Macnee

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
-- Patrick Macnee

The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
-- Patrick Macnee

The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
-- Patrick Macnee

These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
-- Patrick Macnee

They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.
-- Patrick Macnee

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
-- Patrick Macnee

We were the first people in popular television to make the woman an equal partner with the man. You won't believe that, but I promise you it's true.
-- Patrick Macnee

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
-- Patrick Macnee

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