Patrick McGoohan Quotes

• You can’t totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It’s as simple as that.

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• Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

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• Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

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• Marriage is a wonderful thing.

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• It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can’t break.

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• I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.

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• But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

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Patrick McGoohan (7)

Birth:	19th March, 1928
Death:	13th January, 2009
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Patrick Joseph McGoohan was an American-born actor who was brought up in Ireland and Britain, where he established an extensive stage and film career. His most notable roles were in the 1960s television series Danger Man and The Prisoner, which he co-created. McGoohan wrote and directed several episodes of The Prisoner himself, occasionally using the pseudonyms Joseph Serf and Paddy Fitz.

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