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Richard Griffiths

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

— Richard Griffiths respect

I've got this terrible hernia. People think it's a fat gut, but it's not.

— Richard Griffiths think

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.

— Richard Griffiths language

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.

— Richard Griffiths mind

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.

— Richard Griffiths good

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.

— Richard Griffiths work

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.

— Richard Griffiths hate

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 business

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.

— Richard Griffiths art

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.

— Richard Griffiths people

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.

— Richard Griffiths time

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.'

— Richard Griffiths time

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

— Richard Griffiths live

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

— Richard Griffiths action

I hate being the subject of photographs.

— Richard Griffiths hate

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.'

— Richard Griffiths people

I was big and fat and had weird parents.

— Richard Griffiths weird

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.

— Richard Griffiths being

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

— Richard Griffiths body

I've always hated the way I looked, and I've never complained about my brains.

— Richard Griffiths hate

If I had my way, all actors over 55 would be issued a 3-lb. wet salmon with which to slap the face of every young, beautiful, successful upstart.

— Richard Griffiths success

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

— Richard Griffiths men

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

— Richard Griffiths self

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 you

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.

— Richard Griffiths men

If I were dictator, Id have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

— Richard Griffiths respect

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