65 Quotes by Richard Griffiths

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.

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.

If I had my way, all actors over 55 would be issued a 3-lb. wet salmon with which to slap the face of every young, beautiful, successful upstart.

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

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

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.

Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical.

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.

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