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17 quotes by Patrick Macnee

Patrick Macnee Macnee in Lobster Man From Mars, c. 1988. Born (1922-02-06) 6 February 1922 (age 93) Paddington, London, England, UK Nationality British (1922−present) American (1959−present) Citizenship United Kingdom United States Alma mater Eton College Occupation Film, television actor Years active 1947−2003 Known for John Steed Spouse(s) Barbara Douglas (1942−1956; divorced), Katherine Woodville (1965−1969; divorced),...
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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... →

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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.

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Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've... →

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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... →

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

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

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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... →

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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... →

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

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I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

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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.

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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.

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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... →

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