44 Quotes by Patrick Macnee

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.