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Richard Griffiths

Richard Thomas Griffiths, OBE (31 July 1947 – 28 March 2013) was an English actor of film, television, and stage. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, all for his role in The History Boys. For the 2006 film adaptation, Griffiths was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

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

Fat, Fats, Hernia, People, Terrible, Thinking

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.

Appreciate, Happy, Mind, Nice, Salute, Thinking

I don't think I'd live in London unless you paid me. Nine figures would be nice.

Figures, Nice, Thinking, Unless, Would Be

Happy birthday! Hope your 50s will be as awesome as your 40s.

40S, 50Th Birthday, Age, Birthday, Happy, Hope

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.

Actors, Differ, Think, Thinking, Years

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.

Adventure, Astonishing, Missed, People, Travel, Years

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.

Kid, Kids, Like, Normal, Stop, Weight

I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.

Audience, Body, Naked

I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.

Become, Defensive, Like, Look, Looks, Way

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.

Body, Catching, Father, Lying, Psychologists

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.

Awareness, Careers, Happen, Keener, Puberty, Strange

I was big and fat and had weird parents.

Bigs, Fat, Fats, Parent, Parents, Weird

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.

Artist, Course, Like, Nice, Past

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

Commitment, Sick, Tired, Wrong

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.

Chimps, Dad, People, Talking

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.

Gives, Giving, Hate, Horrible, Kids, Odious

I've always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that's not why you play a role. If the guy has to be that way, I say get somebody else because I'm not doing any fat acting.

Acting, Fat, Guy, Play, Somebody, Way

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

Crime, Dictator, Disrespect

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

Feelings, Remotely, Self, Suppose, Though, Vanity

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

Brain, Complained, Hated, Looked, Way

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