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Christopher Plummer Quotes

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.

Christopher Plummer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: canadian
Birth: December 13, 1929

Topics

Business People Golf You Play Want

I love vintage Chanel and Prada. When I was growing up, my mum had a Prada backpack, which she's now given to me. I love it because it reminds me of when I was little.

Love Me Growing Up Vintage Growing

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

Music Alone Time Child Being Alone

Starting in '98 when I was researching 'Traffic,' I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of a great gift. And I really valued these guys; I stayed in touch with them, and I find their point-of-view quite interesting.

Great People Gift Interesting Find

We all learn how to use the bodies we're born with, or learn to use them in an adjusted state, whether those bodies are considered disabled or not.

Learn Born State Use How Those

When I was training for the Chicago Marathon, I would eat a cup of cereal after an 18-mile long run, and then I'd have to get out the door with nothing but a granola bar in my hand. I can't change my busy schedule with my kids, but I can work harder to improve in this area. I think it's a part of training that most of us find difficult.

Work Change Training Door Busy Long

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

Story Dream Lost Want Kind Along

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

Work Myself People Famous Know Kind

I want to be a part of the stories that need to be told.

Want Need Stories Part

Meru is the culmination of all I've done and all I've wanted to do.

Done Wanted Culmination

One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Time Moment Man College You Then

'Alarm' and 'Ciao Adios' are about the same person, yeah.

Person Same Alarm About Yeah

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

Smile Time Mirror Art Best Practice

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