Top 29 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.

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

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.

Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.

I'd grown up with a lot of women. My mother was a famous lesbian in the '20s and '30s, and I grew up with only women, so I was used to getting on with them.

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.

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.

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

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.