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I was always a happy kid. I'd play the piano fairly well. I did all sorts of things fairly well. But who the hell wants to be happy all the time? It's a miserable state to be in permanently. Can you imagine how dreary that would be?

~Christopher Plummer

Topics: Always Be Happy Did Dreary Fairly Happy Hell How Imagine Kid Miserable Permanently Piano Play Sort State Things Time Wants Well Who Would You

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I actually was brought up by an Airedale. I don't really remember my parents, especially my mother. It was only the dog that I saw.

~Christopher Plummer

Topics: Actually Brought Dog Mother Only Parents Really Remember Saw Up

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Some of the best casts I've ever worked with have been dogs.

~Christopher Plummer

Topics: Been Best Casts Dogs Ever Some Worked

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

~Christopher Plummer

Topics: Delicious Funny Humour Sense Simon Talented Terribly Very

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My great-grandfather was prime minister of Canada, and I had a very Edwardian upbringing. It was a beautiful, romantic way of growing up, until the family lost its money. And I decided to be bad and rough and find the streets rather than the gates.

~Christopher Plummer

Topics: Bad Beautiful Canada Decided Family Find Gates Great-Grandfather Growing Growing Up Had Lost Minister Money Prime Prime Minister Rather Romantic Rough Streets Than Until Up Upbringing Very Way

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Most actors come from the streets, and their rise to fame is guided by a natural anger. It was harder to find that rage coming from a gentle background.

~Christopher Plummer

Topics: Actor Anger Background Come Coming Fame Find Gentle Guided Harder Most Natural Rage Rise Streets

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I thought, 'If I make 35, it'll be okay,' and then at 40, I got scared, and now that I'm 81, I'm scared to death.

~Christopher Plummer

Topics: Death Got Make Now Okay Scared Then Thought

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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.

~Christopher Plummer

Topics: Anyway Bloody Boring Down Hate Instead Journal Keep Keeping Life Living More Spend Terribly Time Writing You

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I've done a lot of pictures that are ensemble, and I've not always liked the people I was working with, but that doesn't make any difference because you do the job, and often it turns out to be a great ensemble even if you didn't particularly really like anybody.

~Christopher Plummer

Topics: Always Any Anybody Because Difference Done Ensemble Even Great Job Like Liked Lot Make Often Out Particularly People Pictures Really Turns Working You

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I love trying to give some flesh to rather naked bones sometimes. I've always felt it my duty and to try and bring on the character's off-stage life, what happened that is not revealed.

~Christopher Plummer

Topics: Always Bones Bring Character Duty Felt Flesh Give Happened Life Love Naked Rather Revealed Some Sometimes Try Trying I Love

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Actor

Born: December 13th, 1929

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