Richard Harris
Richard Harris
Richard St John Harriswas an Irish actor, singer, songwriter, producer, director, and writer. He appeared on stage and in many films, appearing as Frank Machin in This Sporting Life, and King Arthur in the 1967 film Camelot and the subsequent 1981 revival of the show. He played an aristocrat and prisoner in A Man Called Horse, a gunfighter in Clint Eastwood's Western film Unforgiven, Emperor Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator, and Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films: The...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 October 1930
CityLimerick, Ireland
CountryIreland
I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.
I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.
I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.
I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.
His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!
He won't, won't he? Then bring me my boots.
Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.
I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.
Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.
The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.
Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.