Richard Attenborough Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

“There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“I prefer fact to fiction.”