Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Patrick McGoohan

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Patrick McGoohan.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Patrick McGoohan

Patrick Joseph McGoohan was an Irish-American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer of film and television. Born in the United States to Irish emigrant parents, he was raised in Ireland and England. He began his career in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and rose to prominence for his role as secret agent John Drake in the ITC espionage programme Danger Man (1960–1968). He then produced and created The Prisoner (1967–1968), a surrealistic television series in which he starred as Number Six, an unnamed British intelligence agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a mysterious coastal village. Beginning in the 1970s, McGoohan maintained a long-running association with Columbo, writing, directing, producing and appearing in several episodes. His notable film roles include Dr. Paul Ruth in Scanners (1981) and King Edward I in Braveheart (1995). He was a BAFTA Award and two-time Primetime Emmy Award winner.

I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number. — © Patrick McGoohan
Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.
You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.
Marriage is a wonderful thing.
It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.
Your village may be different from other people's villages but we are all prisoners.
The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself.
A still tongue makes a happy life.
I was going to be lynched. I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks.
We all live in a little Village.
I am not a number, I am a free man!
Music makes a quiet mind.
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.
Mel Gibson will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number. — © Patrick McGoohan
Mel Gibson will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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