Patrick McGoohan Quotes

Patrick McGoohan ponders freedom and morality, hinting that the biggest battle is within ourselves.

16 quotes

1. Freedom is a myth.

2. Marriage is a wonderful thing. It is more important to like the person you marry than it is to love them.

3. Mel [Gibson] will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a number.

4. 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 worst part of oneself.

5. The Prisoner

6. Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

7. A still tongue makes a happy life.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

11. I was going to be lynched. I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks.

12. I am not a number, I am a free man!

13. Your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners.

14. Music makes a quiet mind.

15. Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

16. We all live in a little Village,