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I’ve had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ.

Richard Griffiths

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.

Richard Griffiths

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.

Richard Griffiths

Some actors don’t mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it’s nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I’m very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don’t like the way I look so I don’t like being photographed. I become defensive.

Richard Griffiths

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.

Richard Griffiths

I’ve always hated the way I looked, and I’ve never complained about my brains.

Richard Griffiths

It’s not that I’m sick of the theater, don’t get me wrong. I’m just tired of the commitment.

Richard Griffiths

I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn’t form it into speech.

Richard Griffiths

It’s been the most astonishing year because I’ve been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I’ve so missed England.

Richard Griffiths

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.

Richard Griffiths

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.

Richard Griffiths

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.

Richard Griffiths

I hate being the subject of photographs.

Richard Griffiths

If I were dictator, I’d have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

Richard Griffiths

I like playing Vernon Dursley in ‘Harry Potter,’ because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to the public.

Richard Griffiths

Every time I’ve talked about my family in the past, people have ended up getting upset. So I said to my friends and family: ‘I shan’t refer to you at all, and there’s nothing for you to get upset about. There’s the deal.’

Richard Griffiths

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.

Richard Griffiths

I’ve got this terrible hernia. People think it’s a fat gut, but it’s not.

Richard Griffiths

What can I say? I deal with it. I think I have come to terms with my absolutely hateful and vile childhood. No, I have, really. But I did hate it at the time. I resented it. There were elements of it that were positively Dickensian.

Richard Griffiths

I was big and fat and had weird parents.

Richard Griffiths

Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: ‘Excuse me, would you mind telling my son here that you’re Uncle Vernon?’ I said: ‘Get a grip. It’s 11:30 at night – what’s he doing out of bed? I’m not here to entertain people at this time of night.

Richard Griffiths

My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.

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