Brian Blessed
Brian Blessed
Brian Joseph Blessed, OBE is an English actor...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth9 October 1936
moon space training
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 International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond!
love-is men space
My biggest love is space. I completed 800 hours' space training in Moscow and I became the world's oldest man to go to the North Magnetic Pole. At 67, I also became the oldest man to reach 28,400ft on Everest without oxygen.
adventure cities space
I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!
adventure space volcanoes
I'll never retire. The new millennium is the age of adventure as far as I am concerned. I'm going up a volcano and off into space.
people hated spoilt
I've always hated it when people overspend, are spoilt or throw their money away.
animal awful bloody
I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.
winning ninety-nine making-money
Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.
dad team believe
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 at least six months, so I left school early to become the family breadwinner.
drama school assistants
I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.
theatre shirts stores
We had a food store at the theatre and I used to pinch food. I pinched some trousers and shirts to keep me going but they would wear out. I was virtually on the breadline.
dream country people
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 are vibrant and colourful.
dad kids drawing
I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.
quiet loud pensive
The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet.
downing-street alive saws
When I was in Downing Street, David Cameron saw me and said, "Please, shout it all around and let it penetrate to my cabinet meeting." So I bellowed: "Gordon's alive!"