Facts about Richard Attenborough

Occup.Actor
FromEngland
BornAugust 29, 1923
Age100 years

Summary

Richard Attenborough is a famous Actor from England, he is 100 years old and still alive, born August 29, 1923.

Zodiac:
He is born under the zodiac virgo, who is known for Analyzing, Practical, Reflective, Observation, Thoughtful. Our collection contains 24 quotes who is written / told by Richard.

Related authors: David Attenborough (Journalist)

Filmography:

24 Famous quotes by Richard Attenborough

Small: Theres nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay
"There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay"
Small: I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebodys life, no matter what
"I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done"
Small: If youve ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean
"If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean"
Small: I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years
"I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years"
Small: I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men thats ever lived
"I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived"
Small: I dont read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics
"I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics"
Small: At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to
"At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too"
Small: And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings
"And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by"
Small: What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit
"What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit"
Small: Im a passionate trade unionist
"I'm a passionate trade unionist"
Small: And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mea
"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"
Small: Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in
"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"
Small: Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up
"Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up"
Small: I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that dont come wi
"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, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all"
Small: I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject
"I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject"
Small: I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justi
"I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something"
Small: Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the auth
"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"
Small: I just love biography, and Im fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view
"I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view"
Small: I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism
"I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism"
Small: In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the bu
"In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie"
Small: David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or wha
"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"
Small: I cant write, I cant paint, I dont compose
"I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose"
Small: I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life
"I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life"
Small: I prefer fact to fiction
"I prefer fact to fiction"