A Quote by Christopher Plummer

A lot of people want to retire; I couldn't. You don't retire in our business. What, play golf and watch television? Oh, please.

Christopher Plummer

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Christopher Plummer
Canadian - Actor
December 13, 1929 - February 5, 2021

People say, 'Oh, so you should retire.' Yeah, you want me to retire so you won't get knocked out. I won't retire.

Vitor Belfort

I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.

Jack Nicklaus

Most people say, "I can't wait to retire so I can play golf," or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.

Stan Lee

People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.

John Hurt

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

Alfred Eisenstaedt

When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a dream? When, in my rags—without desires—shall I retire contented into the mountains? When, seeing that my body is merely sickness and crime, age and death, shall I—free, fearless, and blissful—retire to the forest? When? When, oh when?

Nikos Kazantzakis

Retire to what? I already play golf and fish for a living.

Julius Boros

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

Rick Warren

Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.

Caroll Spinney

When I retire, I want to retire the right way.

Mickie James

I want to retire in New York, let's be quite frank. I think a lot of people jumped the gun when I said I wanted to be a free agent. And yeah, I want people to come to play in New York. I want them to want to play in New York. I want New York to be that place where guys want to come play.

Carmelo Anthony

When the entire population of the world attains enlightenment, I'll retire and play golf every day.

Jaggi Vasudev

Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean, a brain surgeon can retire and write novels, but a novelist can't retire and do brain surgery - or at least he better not.

Alan Furst

I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.