Richard Griffiths Quotes

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• It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live…
• Happy birthday! Hope your 50s will be as awesome as your 40s.
• Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see…
• I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.
• Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more…
• Every time I've talked about my family in the past, people have ended up getting upset. So I said to my friends and family: 'I…
• I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.
• My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.
• Some actors don't mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it's nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I…
• I hate being the subject of photographs.
• I've always hated the way I looked.
• Winning is something you've dreamed about and hoped for, so that when you get there it's no big deal. But if you lose you're gutted,…
• If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.
• I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but…
• My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because…
• I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion,…
• When I see David Attenborough talking about how chimps live, big apes, I just remember my dad and the way he'd look at you. He…
• I've got this terrible hernia. People think it's a fat gut, but it's not.
• Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be,…
• It's not that I'm sick of the theater, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of the commitment.

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