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Richard Attenborough Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Richard Attenborough
Type:
Actor
Nationality:
English
Birth day:
August 29
Birth year:
1923

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    And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by. Richard-AttenboroughRichard Attenborough
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    And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example. Richard-AttenboroughRichard Attenborough
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    And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted. Richard-AttenboroughRichard Attenborough
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    David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands. Richard-AttenboroughRichard Attenborough
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    I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something. Richard-AttenboroughRichard Attenborough
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    I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject. Richard-AttenboroughRichard Attenborough
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    I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all. Richard-AttenboroughRichard Attenborough
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    I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view. Richard-AttenboroughRichard Attenborough
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    I prefer fact to fiction. Richard-AttenboroughRichard Attenborough
  • 10
    I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. Richard-AttenboroughRichard Attenborough
  • 11
    Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up. Richard-AttenboroughRichard Attenborough
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    There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay. Richard-AttenboroughRichard Attenborough
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    Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about. Richard-AttenboroughRichard Attenborough
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    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. Richard-AttenboroughRichard Attenborough
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    What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit. Richard-AttenboroughRichard Attenborough