Christopher Plummer

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

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

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.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.