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"I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing."
"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
"I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial."
"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
Explore more quotes by Patrick Macnee
"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."
"The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it."
"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."
"So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors."
"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 caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally."
"These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time."
"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 - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting."
"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 all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing."
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