Patrick Macnee

“Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.”

“Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.”

“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.”

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

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