My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure. — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy. — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
I fed my Yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female Yak. I made it my… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
My dad was opening fast bowler for Yorkshire's second team and I couldn't believe he could die. He wasn't going to get better for… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way. — Brian Blessed Copy Share
In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!" — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time. — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
The greatest danger in life is not taking chances. There are so many negative people wanting to grind you down, but you can't let… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
My dream is to own a Hockney - I'm a Yorkshireman, and his vibrant colours are a good example of how the north-country people… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
