Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this –” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!”
- Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

In Conversation with David Suchet, Nov 3 2017 [x]

Even Christie’s daughter, Rosalind Hicks, invited him to dinner to explain how much her mother, who died in 1976, would have loved his portrayal of her famous creation. It was “the most moving thing said to me during filming of the show. I was always scared stiff, because it was well known Agatha Christie was never happy with any of the cinematic portrayals of her characters. But Rosalind had my wife and I over to the family house, and it made me absolutely well up when she said, ’My mother would have been absolutely delighted with what you’ve done.’ It meant so much because that was my whole reason for doing this role.” - NY Times, July 18 2014

Suchet met Agatha Christie’s only daughter, Rosalind Hicks, in 1988 before they started to film the first episode. After the success of the third series he received a letter from her which meant the most to the actor, because Dame Agatha’s daughter started it by saying: ’Dear Poirot’ and she also praised the actor’s appearance as the Belgian detective. - Sunday Express, Nov 12 2013

So you say ‘no’ to my dirty money?
I say ‘no’ to you Mr. Ratchett.
Business with the gun, right? is that what it was?

I have always wanted to believe that man is rational and similised. My very existence depends upon this hope, upon order and methods and the little grey cells, but now perhaps I am asked to listen instead to my heart. I have understood in this case that the scales of justice cannot always be evenly weighed and I must learn for once to live with the imbalance. [x]

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Poirot in 1930s Paris

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Hercule Poirot (David Suchet)

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