Quotes by Richard Griffiths

About Richard Griffiths:

Richard Griffiths 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.
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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

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

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...

Richard Griffiths

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

Richard Griffiths

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

Richard Griffiths

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

Richard Griffiths

I hate being the subject of photographs.

Richard Griffiths

If I had my way, all actors over 55 would be issued a 3-lb. wet salmon with which to slap the face of every young, beautiful, successful upstart.

Richard Griffiths

I was big and fat and had weird parents.

Richard Griffiths

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.

Richard Griffiths

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

Richard Griffiths

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

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.'

Richard Griffiths

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

Richard Griffiths

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

Richard Griffiths

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

Richard Griffiths

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

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

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

Richard Griffiths

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.

Richard Griffiths

Author Bio

  • NameRichard Griffiths
  • DescriptionBritish actor
  • BornJuly 31, 1947
  • DiedMarch 28, 2013
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Voice Actor
  • AwardsLaurence Olivier Award; Theatre World Award; Drama Desk Award; Tony Award; Officer Of The Order Of The British Empire