Richard Attenborough Quotes

• I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

  Richard Attenborough

  Believe, Hero, People

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• I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

  Richard Attenborough

  Mistake, People, Jurassic Park

  "Fictional character: John Hammond". "Jurassic Park", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.

  Richard Attenborough

  Believe, Hero, Thinking

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• Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

  Richard Attenborough

  Art, People, Select

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• When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.

  Richard Attenborough

  Brave, Coward, Weapons

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• I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

  Richard Attenborough

  Want, Storyteller, Remembered

  "Actor-director Richard Attenborough dies at 90" by Cineplex.com, August 25, 2014.

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• I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

  Richard Attenborough

  Destiny, Views, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.

  Richard Attenborough

  Men, Rights, Order

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

  Richard Attenborough

  Important, Directors, Screenwriting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

  Richard Attenborough

  Punishment, Capital Punishment, Has Beens

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

  Richard Attenborough

  Names, Age, Calling

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.

  Richard Attenborough

  Mean, Two, Care

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• I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

  Richard Attenborough

  Style, Care, I Do Care

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

  Richard Attenborough

  Believe, Thinking, Done

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

  Richard Attenborough

  Men, Thinking, Paine

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.

  Richard Attenborough

  Long, Ignorant, Brain

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you are directing, you have the opportunity to put your signature on the bottom of the frame. You have the opportunity to say, "This is what I believe. That is my credo. That is what I wish to state."

  Richard Attenborough

  Believe, Opportunity, Wish

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• I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

  Richard Attenborough

  Years, Twenties, Unions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

  Richard Attenborough

  Fiction, Shame, Deals

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I prefer fact to fiction.

  Richard Attenborough

  Fiction, Facts, Recycling

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

  Richard Attenborough

  Art, America, Circuits

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

  Richard Attenborough

  Film, Destroyers, Ifs

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• On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig.

  Richard Attenborough

  Fall, Cutting, Shooting

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• And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.

  Richard Attenborough

  Thinking, People, Judgement

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• I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

  Richard Attenborough

  Believe, Democracy, Democratic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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