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Richard Griffiths Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: english
Birth: July 31, 1947

Topics

Business Hate Me Up Playing Kids

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.

John Otto

Rock Always Everything Funk Liked

Music, from the time I was probably about five years old, was my obsession. I was going to say 'passion,' but I really was obsessed; I really didn't want to do anything else.

Trisha Yearwood

Music Passion Time Say Want Old

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Roger Kahn

Sports Man Baseball Early Lying

There is a saying in Arabic meaning that every situation must be considered based on the realities on the ground. I can talk in some places freely, but not in others.

Rula Ghani

Saying Meaning Situation I Can Talk

Hopefully, if I get enough of a fan army together, people will let me write fiction.

Mary H.K. Choi

Together People Me Army Enough Will

A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.

Michel Houellebecq

Life Me Society Someone Never Well

I've never presented. The logistics of that is a challenge.

Michael Ritchie

Challenge Never Logistics Presented

Yes, I am the first Latino poet laureate in the United States. But I'm also here for everyone and from everyone. My voice is made by everyone's voices.

Juan Felipe Herrera

I Am Voice First Latino Yes Poet

Denard Robinson was my quarterback in high school. Never had his shoes tied. I don't see how you can play like that.

Jason Pierre-Paul

Shoes School High School You Play

There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

Josh Lucas

Good People World Good People Alive

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

History Poetry Literature Acting Up

There is an environment where someone is always looking for someone to make an error. They're always looking not for the good things, the wonderful things the president and first lady are doing, they're looking for an error or to criticize. And it's not conducive to good work.

Desiree Rogers

Work Good Good Things Looking Doing