Robert Morley
Robert Morley
Robert Adolph Wilton Morley, CBEwas an English actor who was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment, often in supporting roles. In Movie Encyclopedia, film critic Leonard Maltin describes Morley as "recognisable by his ungainly bulk, bushy eyebrows, thick lips and double chin, particularly effective when cast as a pompous windbag." More politely, Ephraim Katz in his International Film Encyclopaedia describes Morley as "a rotund, triple-chinned, delightful character player of the British and American stage and...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 May 1908
Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.
Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch.
To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti.
The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.
Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.
When I asked my accountant if anything could get me out of this mess I am in now he thought for a long time and said, 'Yes, death would help'.
Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.
Most owners are at length able to teach themselves to obey their dog.
The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence, he sometimes says something.
If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble.
I have little patience with anyone who is not self-satisfied. I am always pleased to see my friends, happy to be with my wife and family, but the high spot of every day is when I first catch a glimpse of myself in the shaving mirror.
Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."