Christopher Plummer movie quotes

“It is better to have loved and lost.”
Christopher Plummer - Bill

“- Mike Wallace: And that's what cigarettes are for?
- Jeffrey Wigand: A delivery device for nicotine.
- Mike Wallace: A delivery device for nicotine. Put it in your mouth, lit it up and you're gonna get your fix?
- Jeffrey Wigand: You're gonna get your fix.”
Christopher Plummer - Mike Wallace
Russell Crowe - Jeffrey Wigand

“- Captain von Trapp: Now, when I want you, this is what you will hear.
[blows whistle]
- Maria: Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whistle. Whistles are for dogs and cats and other animals, but not for children and definitely not for me. It would be too... humiliating.”
Christopher Plummer - Captain von Trapp
Julie Andrews - Maria

“You know, my son, I wouldn't be Emperor of the galaxy if I didn't have some powers at my disposal.”
Christopher Plummer - The Emperor

“- Lowell Bergman: Did you ever get out a plane, walk into a room and find that a source for a story changed his mind? Lost his heart? Walked out on us? Not one fucking time. You want to know why?
- Mike Wallace: I see a rhetorical question on the horizon.
- Lowell Bergman: I'm gonna tell you why: because when I tell someone I'm gonna do...” (continue)(continue reading)
Al Pacino - Lowell Bergman
Christopher Plummer - Mike Wallace

“Fame has a fifteen minute half-life, infamy lasts a little longer.”
Christopher Plummer - Mike Wallace

I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now, what do you think you think about then? The future? In the future I'm going to do this? Become that? What future? No. What you think is "How will I be regarded in the end, after I'm gone?".

Christopher Plummer - Mike Wallace

“- Baron: Is there a more beautiful expression of what is good in this country of ours than the innocent voices of our children?
- Herr Zeller: Oh, come now, Baron, would you have us believe that Austria alone holds a monopoly on virtue?
- Captain von Trapp: Herr Zeller, some of us prefer Austrian voices raised in song to ugly German threats.”
Ben Wright - Herr Zeller
Christopher Plummer - Captain von Trapp

“A philosopher as well as an artist. It is we who suffer most.”

Christopher Plummer - Bill

“You create allegiance above your sworn allegiance to protect humanity. You shall not care for them, or acknowledge their pain. There lies the madness.”
Christopher Plummer - Sherlock Holmes

“I did Iran-Gate and the Ayatollah, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Saddam, Sadat, etcetera, etcetera. I showed them thieves in suits. I've spent a lifetime building all that. But history only remembers most what you did last. And should that be fronting a segment that allowed a tobacco giant to crash this network? Does it give someone at my time...” (continue)(continue reading)

Christopher Plummer - Mike Wallace

“- Jake: It's a story about the violation of expectations and a crushing loss of faith, and love, and life, and art.
- Bill: So it's a girl?”
John Cusack - Jake
Christopher Plummer - Bill

“At my age, I need an hour in the bathroom in the morning! And there's always one of them skinny, titless mannequins in there fluffing up her hair.”
Christopher Plummer - Shitty

“The face of fear is coming. And when it comes, Walter, you'll answer to no one, not even me.”
Christopher Plummer - Franklin D. Roosevelt

“If anything down here moves, shoot it. You understand? Shoot it in the heart or cut off its head. You understand? They are the undead.”
Christopher Plummer - Abraham Van Helsing

“- Captain von Trapp: Fraulein Maria, did I or did I not say that bedtime is to be strictly observed in this household?
- Maria: Yes, well the children were scared of the thunderstorm and... you did, sir.
- Captain von Trapp: And do you or do you not have trouble following these simple instructions?
- Maria: Only during thunderstorms, sir.”
Christopher Plummer - Captain von Trapp
Julie Andrews - Maria

“The games afoot! No time to lose!”

Christopher Plummer - Sherlock Holmes

“- Dr. Watson: It's a damn disgrace!
- Sherlock Holmes: On the contrary. I prefer bad manners in the theater to active violence in the streets.”

James Mason - Dr. Watson
Christopher Plummer - Sherlock Holmes

“- Abraham Van Helsing: Dracula: not myth, nor ravings of a mad Irish novelist, oh no. He's real, I assure you.
- Simon Sheppard: This is the fucking Twilight Zone!”
Christopher Plummer - Abraham Van Helsing
Jonny Lee Miller - Simon Sheppard

“Well, it's done. It's happened. The stars are clear. The planets shine. We've won. Oh. Some dark force, no doubt, will show it's face once more. The wheel will always turn; but for now it's calm. And for a little time, at least, we can rest.”
Christopher Plummer - The Emperor

“- Alex Gardner: You're a real humanitarian, Blair.
- Bob Blair: I'm a realist. We live in a dangerous, hostile world. I will do whatever I have to to keep this country safe.”
Dennis Quaid - Alex Gardner
Christopher Plummer - Bob Blair

- Henri: Are you ready to go find your family?
- Fievel Mousekewitz: Yes!
- Henri: Chantal! Take my little friend to Immigration. You will find your family there. Everyone goes through Immigration. I would take you there myself, but then I would never finish my statue.
- Fievel Mousekewitz: Henri, you said "never"!
- Henri: Oh, so I did!

Christopher Plummer - Henri
Phillip Glasser - Fievel Mousekewitz

“- Mike Wallace: Who are these people?
- Lowell Bergman: Ordinary people under extraordinary pressure, Mike. What the hell do you expect? Grace and consistency?”
Christopher Plummer - Mike Wallace
Al Pacino - Lowell Bergman

“Our galaxy is split into two warring factions: our own and the one ruled by the evil Count Zarth Arn from the League of the Dark Worlds.”
Christopher Plummer - The Emperor

- Chancellor Gorkon: You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.
- General Chang: "Tah pagh, tah be?".
David Warner - Chancellor Gorkon
Christopher Plummer - Chang