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Top 25 Richard Attenborough Quotes (2025 Update)

Richard Attenborough Quote: “I don’t blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.”

1. “I don’t blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.”

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.”

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

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “I want to be remembered as a storyteller.”

3. “I want to be remembered as a storyteller.”

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “If you are directing, you have the opportunity to put your signature on the bottom of the frame. You have the opportunity to say, “This is what I believe. That is my credo. That is what I wish to state.””

4. “If you are directing, you have the opportunity to put your signature on the bottom of the frame. You have the opportunity to say, “This is what I believe. That is my credo. That is what I wish to state.””

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.”

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

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “On my last day of shooting, I’d be happy to say ‘Cut, it’s a wrap’ and fall off the twig.”

6. “On my last day of shooting, I’d be happy to say ‘Cut, it’s a wrap’ and fall off the twig.”

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “If you’ve ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.”

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

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.”

8. “I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.”

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “I’m a passionate trade unionist.”

9. “I’m a passionate trade unionist.”

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.”

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

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “I prefer fact to fiction.”

12. “I prefer fact to fiction.”

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “I can’t write, I can’t paint, I don’t compose.”

13. “I can’t write, I can’t paint, I don’t compose.”

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “There’s nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.”

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

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Richard Attenborough

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

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

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “I just love biography, and I’m fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.”

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

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that’s ever lived.”

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

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.”

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

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.”

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

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “I don’t read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.”

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

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.”

25. “And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.”

— Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough Quote: “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.”

26. “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

Richard Attenborough Quote: “Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.”

27. “Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.”

— Richard Attenborough

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