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Showing posts with label Richard Attenborough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Attenborough. Show all posts
Friday, 31 December 2021
Sunday, 24 August 2014
No more Dick
"Somebody who I think was having a go at me said that the problem with Attenborough is that substance matters much more to him than style. It was the most charming compliment that I could ever have been given. I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject."
"I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all."
"I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view. I prefer fact to fiction."
"At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone 'darling', it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that."
Whether as an actor - in such classics as In Which We Serve, Brighton Rock, The Great Escape, 10 Rillington Place or even Jurassic Park - or producer - Gandhi, Oh! What a Lovely War, Cry Freedom and Shadowlands among many others - Richard Attenborough's career was indeed remarkable. Along with his brother (that "national treasure" David), he was more of an "institution" than merely a showbiz legend. He out-classed them all, and we will miss him.
RIP, Dickie!
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE (29th August 1923 – 24th August 2014)
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