Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths
Richard Thomas Griffiths, OBE was an English actor of stage, film and television. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor and a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, all for his role in the play The History Boys...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth31 July 1947
disrespect dictator crime
If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.
winning feelings goes-on
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, and the gutted sense just goes on, and I know what that's like, because I've been having that gutted feeling since 1979.
way hated
I've always hated the way I looked.
hate i-hate photograph
I hate being the subject of photographs.
nice thinking appreciate
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.
self vanity feelings
My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.
thinking people taxes
I think there are people watching me, and if ever I manage to save £1,000 there's someone saying, 'Oh, we'll invent a tax to take that off him.
naked body audience
I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.
people actors faces
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.
jane attraction
I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.
birthday office bags
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.
birthday
Happy birthday! Hope your 50s will be as awesome as your 40s.
lying father body
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 my posture was all wrong.
nice past artist
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.