65 Quotes by Richard Griffiths

I’ve always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that’s not why you play a role. If the guy has to be that way, I say get somebody else because I’m not doing any fat acting.

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.

When I see David Attenborough talking about how chimps live, big apes, I just remember my dad and the way he’d look at you. He couldn’t speak, but everything else about him was, ‘This is us, a family.’ Relationships are just as intense as they are for people who can speak. Probably more so.

It’s been the most astonishing year because I’ve been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I’ve so missed England.

I don’t think I’d live in London unless you paid me. Nine figures would be nice.

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.

I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I’ve got past that.

I’ve always hated the way I looked, and I’ve never complained about my brains.

I think there are people watching me, and if ever I manage to save £1,000 there's someone saying, 'Oh, we'll invent a tax to take that off him.'