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" 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. "
Done
Accomplishment
Dangerous
" 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. "
World
Know
War
" 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. "
Said
Review
Think
" But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter. "
New York
Matter
Hollywood
" 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. "
Used
Women
Famous
" If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho. "
Sean
Would
Been
" I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies. "
Actor
Because
Best
" I loved Ingrid Bergman. I sat and saw her on the stage in a theater in the round. "
Round
Sat
Stage
" I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really. "
Better
Great
Mean
" I missed so much of the Swinging Sixties by working. From 1961 to 1969, I got up at 4.30 A.M., a car came for me at 5.30 A.M., and I was taken to our studio at Teddington or Elstree, and we filmed until I got home at 9.30 P.M., five days a week. "
Working
Missed
Me
" I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent? "
Death
Life
Fear
" I'm not surprised 'The Avengers' has such enduring popularity, because it was a groundbreaking series that changed television. It was the first show that put its leading man and leading lady on an equal footing and showed a woman fighting and kicking and throwing men around. That was a radical departure in its time. "
Fighting
Man
Woman
" I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck. "
Life
Think
Really
" I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name - Steed's name. "
Strength
End
Great
" 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. "
Think
You
Work
" I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved. "
Those
Delighted
Been
" I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it. "
You
Learn
Acting
" Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal. "
Just
Losing
She
" 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. "
Way
Enjoy
Life
" 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. "
Doing
Writing
Skill
" Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention. "
Wonderful
Television
Invention
" 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. "
Job
Said
Remember
" 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. "
Holocaust
Radio
Right
" 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. "
Think
Best
Bird
" 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. "
Woman
Learn
Gentleman
" 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. "
Looking
Me
New People
" Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally. "
Love
House
Crime
" Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed. "
World
Know
Through
" 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. "
Blue
Mountains
Road
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