Richard Griffiths Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“What can I say? I deal with it. I think I have come to terms with my absolutely hateful and vile childhood. No, I have, really. But I did hate it at the time. I resented it. There were elements of it that were positively Dickensian.”

“Every time I've talked about my family in the past, people have ended up getting upset. So I said to my friends and family: 'I shan't refer to you at all, and there's nothing for you to get upset about. There's the deal.'”

“I know I have this kind of teaching element in me, but I don't want to become a 'teacher of theater' because that would formalize something that I'd much rather keep casual.”

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

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

“I hate being the subject of photographs.”

“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.'”

“I was big and fat and had weird parents.”

“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.”

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