Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBEwas an English actor, film director, film producer, entrepreneur, and politician. He was the President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Artand the British Academy of Film and Television Arts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth29 August 1923
CityCambridge, England
destiny views people
I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
punishment capital-punishment has-beens
I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.
brave coward weapons
When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.
names age calling
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.
style care i-do-care
I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.
facts fiction recycling
I prefer fact to fiction.
unique thinking genius
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.