Top 25 Richard Griffiths Quotes (2024 Update)

Richard Griffiths Quote: “Happy birthday! Hope your 50s will be as awesome as your 40s.”

1. “Happy birthday! Hope your 50s will be as awesome as your 40s.”

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “I don’t like the way I look so I don’t like being photographed. I become defensive.”

2. “I don’t like the way I look so I don’t like being photographed. I become defensive.”

— Richard Griffiths

Richard Griffiths Quote: “I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn’t form it into speech.”

3. “I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn’t form it into speech.”

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “I like playing Vernon Dursley in ‘Harry Potter,’ because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to the public.”

5. “I like playing Vernon Dursley in ‘Harry Potter,’ because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to the public.”

— Richard Griffiths

Richard Griffiths Quote: “I’ve got this terrible hernia. People think it’s a fat gut, but it’s not.”

6. “I’ve got this terrible hernia. People think it’s a fat gut, but it’s not.”

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “It’s not that I’m sick of the theater, don’t get me wrong. I’m just tired of the commitment.”

7. “It’s not that I’m sick of the theater, don’t get me wrong. I’m just tired of the commitment.”

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “I’ve had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ.”

8. “I’ve had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ.”

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “When I see David Attenborough talking about how chimps live, big apes, I just remember my dad and the way he’d look at you. He couldn’t speak, but everything else about him was, ‘This is us, a family.’ Relationships are just as intense as they are for people who can speak. Probably more so.”

9. “When I see David Attenborough talking about how chimps live, big apes, I just remember my dad and the way he’d look at you. He couldn’t speak, but everything else about him was, ‘This is us, a family.’ Relationships are just as intense as they are for people who can speak. Probably more so.”

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “Winning is something you’ve dreamed about and hoped for, so that when you get there it’s no big deal. But if you lose you’re gutted, and the gutted sense just goes on, and I know what that’s like, because I’ve been having that gutted feeling since 1979.”

10. “Winning is something you’ve dreamed about and hoped for, so that when you get there it’s no big deal. But if you lose you’re gutted, and the gutted sense just goes on, and I know what that’s like, because I’ve been having that gutted feeling since 1979.”

— Richard Griffiths

Richard Griffiths Quote: “I was big and fat and had weird parents.”

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

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “I wouldn’t inflict my naked body on any paying audience.”

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

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “It’s been the most astonishing year because I’ve been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I’ve so missed England.”

13. “It’s been the most astonishing year because I’ve been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I’ve so missed England.”

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “I’ve always hated the way I looked, and I’ve never complained about my brains.”

14. “I’ve always hated the way I looked, and I’ve never complained about my brains.”

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “I hate being the subject of photographs.”

15. “I hate being the subject of photographs.”

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “Actors do have good and bad sides. It’s because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical.”

16. “Actors do have good and bad sides. It’s because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical.”

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I’ve got past that.”

17. “I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I’ve got past that.”

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.”

18. “My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.”

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “Some actors don’t mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it’s nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I’m very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don’t like the way I look so I don’t like being photographed. I become defensive.”

19. “Some actors don’t mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it’s nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I’m very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don’t like the way I look so I don’t like being photographed. I become defensive.”

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “Since puberty I’ve always had this strange awareness that all the keener experiences I would have in my life would happen later than it would to my contemporaries. When it came to the career thing, I never worried about it. It’s better if you’re still peaking when you’re 60, which I feel I am.”

20. “Since puberty I’ve always had this strange awareness that all the keener experiences I would have in my life would happen later than it would to my contemporaries. When it came to the career thing, I never worried about it. It’s better if you’re still peaking when you’re 60, which I feel I am.”

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.”

21. “Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.”

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “I don’t think I’d live in London unless you paid me. Nine figures would be nice.”

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

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “If I were dictator, I’d have a catch-all crime of disrespect.”

23. “If I were dictator, I’d have a catch-all crime of disrespect.”

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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

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

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “I’ve always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that’s not why you play a role. If the guy has to be that way, I say get somebody else because I’m not doing any fat acting.”

26. “I’ve always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that’s not why you play a role. If the guy has to be that way, I say get somebody else because I’m not doing any fat acting.”

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.”

27. “My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.”

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Richard Griffiths Quote: “Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.”

28. “Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.”

— Richard Griffiths

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