Patrick Macnee Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ordinary, Developing

• 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

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Citizen

• 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

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  Tags in Live

• 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

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Like, Acting and Actors

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

  Patrick Macnee

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Hollywood

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Allow, Allowing, Doing

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actors And Acting

• 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

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Think, Background

• I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

  Patrick Macnee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Show

• 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

  Topics in Job

  Tags in People, Remember

• 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

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Acting and Actors

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Human, Develop

• Television has some lovely aspects to it – and some ghastly aspects – but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

  Patrick Macnee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Television

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Right

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Except

• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homos*xual 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

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Change, Crime

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

  Patrick Macnee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Friend, Friends

Patrick Macnee (17)

Birth:	6th February, 1922
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

About

Daniel Patrick Macnee, the elder of two sons, was born in London, to Daniel and Dorothea Mary Macnee. His father trained racehorses in Lambourn. His maternal grandmother was Frances Alice Hastings, who was descended from the Earls of Huntingdon.

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