Richard Attenborough Quotes

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Richard Attenborough

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 29, 1923

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.

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I'm a passionate trade unionist.

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I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

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I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

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I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

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I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.

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I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

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I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

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And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.

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Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.

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David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.

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Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.

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I very, very, very rarely lose my temper. I do get cross sometimes when encountering something that I feel is improper, that I feel is lacking in justice and equity, and this all sounds very pompous and over the top - but these are the things that really upset me: intolerance, prejudice etc. I suppose in more mundane matters, I'm impatient.

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If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.

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I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I'm not able to deal with things outside my ken, and that makes me irritable. I'm irritable about the fact that I never went to university.

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You act in a movie, and at the end of the day, the director and editor decide what your performance is.

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I'm 4 ft. 2 in. and not exactly a matinee idol.

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When I'm directing a movie, nothing else matters.

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I think there were times when, if circumstances had developed, I might have been tempted into politics. I am a fan of Tony Blair. I think Gordon Brown is a fine man, but I think he's headed for one hell of a bloody struggle.

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When me and Sheila got married, all we had was an oval table, four chairs, a bed, and a painting by Matthew Smith.

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