Patrick Macnee British Actor Quotations

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.

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.

We were the first people in popular television to make the woman an equal partner with the man. You won't believe that, but I promise you it's true.

It was male chauvinism, as you must realize, in the 1960s, particularly in the entertainment business, which was pretty repulsive.

No, I was working in Canada. In fact, the man who asked me to be in The Avengers, I told him, what do I need to be in that, I'm a producer now.