44 Quotes by Patrick Macnee

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

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.

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.

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.

But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.

They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.

And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.

I loved Ingrid Bergman. I sat and saw her on the stage in a theater in the round.