Robert Morley
Robert Morley
Robert Adolph Wilton Morley, CBEwas an English actor who was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment, often in supporting roles. In Movie Encyclopedia, film critic Leonard Maltin describes Morley as "recognisable by his ungainly bulk, bushy eyebrows, thick lips and double chin, particularly effective when cast as a pompous windbag." More politely, Ephraim Katz in his International Film Encyclopaedia describes Morley as "a rotund, triple-chinned, delightful character player of the British and American stage and...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 May 1908
The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.
The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
If in the paddock the owner is surrounded by a herd of young children, don't back his horse. But if the owner is accompanied by a beautiful lady, plunge to the hilt.
Most owners are at length able to teach themselves to obey their dog.
Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.
When I asked my accountant if anything could get me out of this mess I am in now he thought for a long time and said, 'Yes, death would help'.
Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.
To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.
I don’t work. I merely inflict myself on the public.
The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti.
To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.