Quotes by Richard Attenborough - Page 2

I don't use film in the way that the great auteurs do. I use film, the camera, to record as effectively and as perceptive as I am able what I want to say through the actors.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Great I Am Way
Effectively
Perceptive
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Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Cinema
Authorities
Performance
Sandra
Sandra Bullock
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My father thought Gandhi was a great man. I suppose subconsciously, consciously even, I was aware that I wanted to please him and Ma, so I thought doing something like 'Gandhi' would be phenomenal.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Phenomenal
Please
Great Man Father
Gandhi
Great Man
Suppose
Ma
Subconsciously
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If you are directing, you have the opportunity to put your signature on the bottom of the frame. You have the opportunity to say, "This is what I believe. That is my credo. That is what I wish to state."
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Opportunity
Believe
Wish
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If someone does something in an entertainment/pop ambience, that person becomes someone who has an impact on the conduct and attitude of a huge number of people who peripherally come in contact with them.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Ambience
Contact
Conduct
Huge Number
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I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I'm not able to deal with things outside my ken, and that makes me irritable. I'm irritable about the fact that I never went to university.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Constraints
Erudition
Intellectual
Me Never Things
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Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Chaplin
Cinema
Extraordinary
Thinking
Unique
Context
Elevated
Such A Thing
Uk
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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. Although, of course, I adore them too.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Age
Adore
Calling
Damn
Darling
Names
Safe
Adoring
Although
Passionately
Remembering
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I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Men
Order
Rights
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I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man: who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Justify
Luxurious
Majority
Related
Life Family Man
Believed
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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.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Brain
Ignorant
Long
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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, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Ignorant
Rationale
Bracket
Dealing
Matters
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I think there were times when, if circumstances had developed, I might have been tempted into politics. I am a fan of Tony Blair. I think Gordon Brown is a fine man, but I think he's headed for one hell of a bloody struggle.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Blair
Bloody
Circumstances
Fine
Struggle
Tempted
Developed
Gordon
Headed
Tony
Tony Blair
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When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Brave
Coward
Weapons
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I know Pandit Ravi Shankar was very upset with me, as I did not use his compositions in 'Gandhi.' I thought that the London Philharmonic Orchestra would prove more effective than his music. It was one of my biggest miscalculations.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
London
Orchestra
Prove
Upset
Music Use Me
Biggest
Music Me Know
Effective
Gandhi
Philharmonic
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Throughout my life, I always remember that consideration of people who were less fortunate than we. We lived in an atmosphere of awareness, and we certainly did not live a life whereby we ignored, or felt that we could ignore, that which was in evidence around us.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Atmosphere
Consideration
Fortunate
Ignore
Whereby
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We used to indulge hopelessly as a family at Christmas. When the children were little, I dressed up as Father Christmas. They knew it was a gag, but they loved it. I remember stealing into their bedrooms at 1 A.M. and filling the stockings up at the end of the bed.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Christmas
Filling
Indulge
Stockings
Bedrooms
Dressed
Gag
Hopelessly
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David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Ashamed
Embarrassed
Hesitation
Uneasy
Best Me People
David
Performance
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And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Care
Cry
Evident
Mean
Two
Certain Things
Counted
Gandhi
Obviously
Stand Up
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'Gandhi' was a well-made film but surely not my best. It had flaws, which I understand two-and-a-half decades after I directed it. I will never call it a propaganda film for the Indian Congress, but it could have been made better had I concentrated on certain minute details.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Decades
Indian
Propaganda
Concentrated
Directed
Gandhi
Minute
Surely
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What actually happened with 'Miracle' was that someone saw me in 'Jurassic Park' and said, 'We want someone with a white beard - how about him?' I've got a round face, white hair, a white beard. I can wear half-moon glasses and waddle a little, cope with a cane, raise my hat.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Beard
Glasses
Jurassic Park
Cane
Cope
Round
Saw
Hat
Wear
Jurassic
Park
Raise
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I adore my family; they are my joy. However, I am committed to my work. If, on a Saturday morning when I was ostensibly going to be with the children, and something arose at RADA or at UNICEF or at the orphanage or whatever, I would allow the other pressures to take precedent.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Adore
Committed
Joy
Orphanage
Precedent
Saturday
Saturday Morning
Unicef
Family Work Morning
Allow
However
Pressures
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Ben Kingsley was my ideal choice for Gandhi, and he really lived up to the expectations of an international audience. I did not find any Indian actor worthy to perform the role of Gandhi in the early Eighties, though there were brilliant performers like Naseeruddin Shah in India.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Brilliant
Indian
Performers
Worthy
Ben
Eighties
Gandhi
Ideal
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My main aim in 'Gandhi' was to project him as the vanguard of non-violence. Nowhere in the world has a movement of non-cooperation sans violence received so much support from masses as Gandhi's movement in India did. He was, to a great extent, responsible for freeing his nation from the British Raj.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Aim
British
Movement
Non Violence
Support
Vanguard
Violence
Nowhere
Nation
Extent
Project
Freeing
Gandhi
Great Extent
Main
Masses
Received
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If I were able to write, I probably would. But movies have given me a part of my life where I can express feelings and bring convictions to an audience as if I could write. So I made 'Gandhi' about human relations, prejudice and the empire. In 'Cry Freedom' I expressed my horror and disgust about apartheid.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Apartheid
Cry
Human Relations
If I Could
Prejudice
Convictions
Disgust
Empire
Expressed
Gandhi
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I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. He lived in the 18th century; as you all know, he was an Englishman who was involved in the writing of American Declaration of Independence, the American Constitution, the French Constitution, wrote the great book called 'The Rights of Man' - commercial over.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Independence
Century
Constitution
Declaration
Great Book
Paine
Men Great Man
Commercial
French
Englishman
Tom
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I very, very, very rarely lose my temper. I do get cross sometimes when encountering something that I feel is improper, that I feel is lacking in justice and equity, and this all sounds very pompous and over the top - but these are the things that really upset me: intolerance, prejudice etc. I suppose in more mundane matters, I'm impatient.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Equity
Etc
Intolerance
Lacking
Mundane
Pompous
Prejudice
Upset
Cross
Suppose
Rarely
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