Richard Griffiths Quotes

• 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 someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.

  Richard Griffiths

  Birthday, Office, Age

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• I've got this terrible hernia. People think it's a fat gut, but it's not.

  Richard Griffiths

  Thinking, People, Fats

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• 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, the houses you get here will want something finer.

  Richard Griffiths

  Thinking, Want Something, House

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• 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 couldn't speak, but everything else about him was, 'This is us, a family.' Relationships are just as intense as they are for people who can speak. Probably more so.

  Richard Griffiths

  Dad, Talking, People

  "A break in the clouds" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2006.

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• Happy birthday! Hope your 50s will be as awesome as your 40s.

  Richard Griffiths

  Birthday, 50th Birthday, Age

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• 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 they couldn't form it into speech.

  Richard Griffiths

  Childhood, Parent, Dumb

  "Richard Griffiths: 'I've always hated the way I look'" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2005.

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• I know I have this kind of teaching element in me, but I don't want to become a 'teacher of theater' because that would formalize something that I'd much rather keep casual.

  Richard Griffiths

  Teacher, Teaching, Elements

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• 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, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.

  Richard Griffiths

  Nice, Artist, Past

  "A break in the clouds" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2006.

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• Since puberty I've always had this strange awareness that all the keener experiences I would have in my life would happen later than it would to my contemporaries. When it came to the career thing, I never worried about it. It's better if you're still peaking when you're 60, which I feel I am.

  Richard Griffiths

  Careers, Strange, Awareness

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• 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 appreciate that. I'm very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.

  Richard Griffiths

  Nice, Thinking, Appreciate

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• 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 symmetrical.

  Richard Griffiths

  People, Actors, Faces

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• My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.

  Richard Griffiths

  Vanity, Self, Feelings

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• I've always hated the way I looked, and I've never complained about my brains.

  Richard Griffiths

  Brain, Way, Hated

  "Richard Griffiths: 'I've always hated the way I look'". Interview with Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2005.

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• I've had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ.

  Richard Griffiths

  Thinking, Years, Actors

  "Richard Griffiths: 'I've always hated the way I look'" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2005.

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• I was big and fat and had weird parents.

  Richard Griffiths

  Parent, Bigs, Fats

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• I've always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that's not why you play a role. If the guy has to be that way, I say get somebody else because I'm not doing any fat acting.

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  Play, Guy, Acting

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• I don't think I'd live in London unless you paid me. Nine figures would be nice.

  Richard Griffiths

  Nice, Thinking, Would Be

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• I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood.

  Richard Griffiths

  Kids, Normal, Weight

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• I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.

  Richard Griffiths

  Looks, Way

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• It's not that I'm sick of the theater, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of the commitment.

  Richard Griffiths

  Tired, Commitment, Sick

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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 in exile, because I've so missed England.

  Richard Griffiths

  Travel, Adventure, Years

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• I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.

  Richard Griffiths

  Jane, Attraction

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• 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 shan't refer to you at all, and there's nothing for you to get upset about. There's the deal.

  Richard Griffiths

  Past, People, Upset

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• I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.

  Richard Griffiths

  Naked, Body, Audience

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• I hate being the subject of photographs.

  Richard Griffiths

  Hate, I Hate, Photograph

  "Richard Griffiths: 'I've always hated the way I look'". Interview with Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2005.

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