Brian Blessed
Brian Blessed
Brian Joseph Blessed, OBE is an English actor...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth9 October 1936
people hated spoilt
I've always hated it when people overspend, are spoilt or throw their money away.
animal awful bloody
I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.
winning ninety-nine making-money
Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.
drama school assistants
I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.
dad kids drawing
I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.
fire radio bread
The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.
teacher drama school
I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way.
moon space training
I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond!
alive sailor submarines
In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!"
dream military father
I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertakers assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
kindness compassion wish
Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures.
love-is men space
My biggest love is space. I completed 800 hours' space training in Moscow and I became the world's oldest man to go to the North Magnetic Pole. At 67, I also became the oldest man to reach 28,400ft on Everest without oxygen.
adventure cities space
I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!
teacher actors great-actors
When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.