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Robert Powell Quotes

British - Actor | June 1, 1944 -

Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.

Job People Me Doing I Can Way

I have always been attracted to difficult work. There really doesn't seem much point in looking for the easy life as an actor. I would simply get bored.

Life Work Looking Easy Actor Always

When I die, I want to be the only person in the world not to have seen 'The Sound Of Music.'

Music World Die Person Want Sound

The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.

Life Fun People Think You Late

I was 24 when I was offered 'Doomwatch.' There was an option for a further series, and I turned it down. It is a wonderfully glorious thing to be unknowingly arrogant.

Down Arrogant Glorious Further Thing

I have a number of places on my wish list, including Antarctica, the Norwegian fjords, and the Amazon. I have a passion for wilderness, and Siberia is on my list - however, that may be a bridge too far.

Passion Bridge Wilderness Wish May

I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father.

Father Mother Born She Bank Days

I was there at the birth of my son and had the extraordinary feeling when I first saw him of thinking this was the first person I would willingly die for. I had the same strong feelings when my daughter was born.

Son Daughter Strong Thinking Die

In the 1950s, as food rationing ended, I remember a plentiful supply of sweets for the first time.

Time Food Remember First Time First

I vaguely remember we had an air-raid shelter in our yard. We lived in a semi-detached house with a small garden in the suburbs of Salford, a couple of miles from the docks.

Small Remember House Garden Lived

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