Christopher Plummer

I hate turbulence in life, but also on planes. ”

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license. ”

I didn't have to keep a bloody journal. It's terribly boring keeping a journal anyway. I hate it. You spend more time writing down life instead of living it. ”

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. ”

A lot of people want to retire; I couldn't. You don't retire in our business. What, play golf and watch television? Oh, please. ”

Simon Pegg is terribly talented, very funny, such a delicious sense of humour. ”

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. ”

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. ”

I was an only child, so I was very demanding. I enjoyed it thoroughly, but I wasn't very pleasant. ”

Oh, I don't have any religious beliefs. ”