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Christopher Plummer

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC (born December 13, 1929) is a Canadian actor. Beginning with his film debut in Stage Struck (1958), Plummer's career has spanned six decades. He is known for portraying Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965), and has also portrayed several major historical figures, including Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in Waterloo (1970), Rudyard Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station (2009), and J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World (2017).

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A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time, never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature.

Design, Disregards, Inspirational, Motivational, Stand, Time

You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?

Darling, Life, Oscars, Two, Years

I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.

Believe, Fans, Letter, Letters, Unreal

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

Dinner, Father, Saw, Sweet, Talking

I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.

Art, Artist, Enough, Luck, Piece, Suffering

Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don`t think life has very much meaning.

Beautiful, Meaning, Surround Yourself, Think, Thinking, Unless

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

Computer, Quill, Quills, Use

Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you're ever going to know the best you were meant to be.

Look, Looks, Mirror, Mirrors, Were Meant To Be, Worst

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

License, People, Poetic, Poetic License

I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now what do you think you think about then? The future? In the future I'm going to do this? Become that? What future? No. What you think is, 'How will I be regarded in the end?'

Aging, Beginning, Future, Regarded, Talking, Thinking

Theater roles are written by the great masters. The greatest literature that you can possibly know are the theater roles like King Lear, Hamlet, and all of those great roles. So all you do is you dive into these unchallenged roles and see how far you can get, what kind of accolades you can get, and how good you can be in them. In movie roles, you can actually improve them by knowing a lot about your own stage technique, which helps a great deal in the cinema and how you can project inner humor even though the particular dialogue is not necessarily funny, but you can infuse it with humor.

Kind, Kings, Know, Knowing, Technique, Theater

Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.

Evil, Insulting, Smoking, Storm

If the movie is terrible you can have fun. You can joke about it and have a ball. The movie is already sort of established as a kind of extraordinary piece of work even though it hasn't opened yet to the public. It is harder because you can't go against it and you can't be interesting. You have to go with the flow. Although one is very happy to be in it, it is sort of hard to talk about it. It is hard to talk about successful. It is much easier to talk about failure.

Easier, Fun, Harder, Interesting, Movie, Successful

Not the challenges necessarily, but the way in which you get ready because your technique has improved over the years and you perhaps know how to be more economical than perhaps you used to be when you tried to work perhaps too hard.

Challenges, Improved, Know, Technique, Used, Years

History remembers most what you did last.

History, Inspirational, Motivational, Remembers

I rather like the idea of defying death.

Death, Defying, Idea, Like

I don't want death to suddenly interrupt what I'm doing. I don't like the idea of death at all.

Death, Idea, Interrupt, Like

I just can't tell you what fun I've had being a member of the world's second oldest profession.

Fun, Members, Oldest, Profession, Tell, World

The devil is more interesting than God.

Devil, God, Interesting

I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.

Days, Gets, Know, Knows, Parts, These Days