Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths
Richard Thomas Griffiths, OBE was an English actor of stage, film and television. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor and a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, all for his role in the play The History Boys...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth31 July 1947
teacher teaching elements
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.
kids weight normal
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.
parent bigs fats
I was big and fat and had weird parents.
careers strange awareness
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.
nice thinking london
I don't think I'd live in London unless you paid me. Nine figures would be nice.
dad talking people
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.
nice past artist
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.
birthday office bags
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.
jane attraction
I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.
people actors faces
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.
naked body audience
I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.
way hated
I've always hated the way I looked.
winning feelings goes-on
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.
disrespect dictator crime
If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.