Richard Attenborough Quotes

• 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.

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• And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

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• I don’t read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

  Richard Attenborough

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  Tags in Read, Deal, Fiction

• If you’ve ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

  Richard Attenborough

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  Tags in Ever, Film, Seen

• I just love biography, and I’m fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

  Richard Attenborough

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  Tags in View, Biography, Fascinated

• I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

  Richard Attenborough

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  Tags in Punishment, Capital, Opposed

• 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.

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  Tags in Problem, Everyone

• 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.

  Richard Attenborough

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  Tags in Believe, Person

• I prefer fact to fiction.

  Richard Attenborough

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

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  Tags in Idea, Sea, Guy

• What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

  Richard Attenborough

  Topics in America, Art, Sad

• 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.

  Richard Attenborough

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  Tags in Word, Almost, Movie

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

  Richard Attenborough

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• There’s nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

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• I’m a passionate trade unionist.

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

  Richard Attenborough

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

  Richard Attenborough

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  Tags in Greatest, Men

• 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.

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  Tags in Come, Long, Brain

• I can’t write, I can’t paint, I don’t compose.

  Richard Attenborough

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  Tags in Write, Paint, Compose

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

  Richard Attenborough

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  Tags in Care, Style, Subject

Richard Attenborough (24)

Birth:	29th August, 1923
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer

About

Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough is an English actor, director, producer and entrepreneur. He is the current President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. As a film director and producer, he won two Academy Awards for Gandhi in 1982. He has also won four BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. As an actor he is perhaps best known for his roles in Brighton Rock, The Great Escape, 10 Rillington Place, Miracle on 34th Street and Jurassic Park.

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