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Brian Blessed Biography

Brian Blessed OBE (/ˈblɛsɪd/; born 9 October 1936) is an English actor, writer, presenter, and comedian. He is known for his booming voice and his roles in Z-Cars, I, Claudius, Blackadder, and Flash Gordon.

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The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet.

Actually, Loud, Pensive, Quiet, Rampant

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Cent, Happy, Making Money, Ninety, Ninety Nine, Winning

My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.

Adventure, Compassion, Danger, Honesty, Kindness, People

Life is a re-discovery.

Discovery, Life, Life Is

My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miners son should go to drama school.

Drama, Parents, School, Son

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

Adventure, Call, Danger In Life, Greatest, Thinking, Unless

In the news this week, the polls continue to slide for Gordon Brown and some people are saying he's dead and buried. But I think the opposite - I say GORDON'S ALIVE!

Continue, Opposites, People, Saying, Thinking, Week

My biggest love is space. I completed 800 hours' space training in Moscow and I became the world's oldest man to go to the North Magnetic Pole. At 67, I also became the oldest man to reach 28,400ft on Everest without oxygen.

Completed, Hours, Love Is, Men, Oldest, Oxygen

The household I grew up in. . . was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.

Bread, Fire, Grew, Household, Magical, Radio

I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children of stardust.

Buddha, Dream, Jesus, Meet, Stars

When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.

Actors, Great Actors, Part, Played, Teacher, Told

The greatest danger in life is not taking chances. There are so many negative people wanting to grind you down, but you can't let them. If people say you are mad, you know you're on the right track.

Danger, Danger In Life, Life, People, Right, Track

I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.

Dad, Drawing, Kid, Kids, Picasso

My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives.

Father, Gas, Hewer, Men, Saved, Team

My dream is to own a Hockney - I'm a Yorkshireman, and his vibrant colours are a good example of how the north-country people are vibrant and colourful.

Colours, Country, Dream, People, Vibrant

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertakers assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Bristol, Dream, Dreaming, Father, Military, Mines

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

Assistant, Assistants, Drama, Hard, School, Stage

I've always been generous and like giving to charities and people in need.

Charities, Generous, Giving, Needs, People

In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!"

Alive, Russian, Sailor, Sailors, Submarines

I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m.

Away, Drawing, Floor, Ps50M, Threw

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