Richard Harris
Richard Harris
Richard St John Harriswas an Irish actor, singer, songwriter, producer, director, and writer. He appeared on stage and in many films, appearing as Frank Machin in This Sporting Life, and King Arthur in the 1967 film Camelot and the subsequent 1981 revival of the show. He played an aristocrat and prisoner in A Man Called Horse, a gunfighter in Clint Eastwood's Western film Unforgiven, Emperor Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator, and Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films: The...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 October 1930
CityLimerick, Ireland
CountryIreland
I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.
I don't drink because I have problems or I want to escape. I just love drinking and being drunk.
When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.
Jesus is just a word I use to swear with
Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.
Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.
Though technology has significantly advanced, the government is still using technology the same way it was doing in the past. If technology is used in the same way as before instead of being more efficient it becomes very risky.
We're just here in case something happens. (We) take it as it comes.
What's interesting here is that you can see how the cost of operations continues to rise and debt obligations continue to rise, while capital improvements have gone down. Money has just not been available for those types of services.
Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.
The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.
Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.
Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.