Richard Griffiths movie quotes

“I should think you'd be a little more grateful. We've raised you since you were a baby, given you the food off our table, even let you have Dudley's second bedroom, purely out of the goodness of our hearts.”

Richard Griffiths - Uncle Vernon

“- Willingham: That's wonderful, Duncan. Who is he?
- Phipps: His name is Jones. Ralph Jones.
- Willingham: Is he everything we've hoped for?
- Phipps: He has his strengths and his weaknesses. You see, he's American.”

Peter O'Toole - Willingham
Richard Griffiths - Phipps

“Apathetic bloody planet. I've no sympathy at all.”
Richard Griffiths - Jeltz

- Hector: "Happy is England, sweet her artless daughters; enough their simple loveliness for me". Keats.
- Crowther: Oh! We won't be examined on that, though, will we, sir?
- Hector: Keats?
- Crowther: Happiness.
Richard Griffiths - Hector
Samuel Anderson - Crowther

“- Timms: I don't always understand poetry!
- Hector: You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you will understand it... whenever.”
James Corden - Timms
Richard Griffiths - Hector

“- Phipps: When in public, a royal personage must refrain from chewing gum, using profanity, picking his nose, scratching his p... p... p... p... private parts and staring down the bust lines of visiting female dignitaries.
- Ralph: What the hell! That's everything!”

Richard Griffiths - Phipps
John Goodman - Ralph

“Flowers are essentially tarts. Prostitutes for the bees. There is, you'll agree, a certain 'je ne sais quoi' oh so very special about a firm, young carrot.”
Richard Griffiths - Monty

“- Monty: You're going to finish the vegetables.
- Withnail: I don't know how to do them.
- Monty: Well, of course you don't, you are incapable of indulging in anything but pleasure, am I not right? You don't deserve such loyalty. Now, come along, I'm going to teach you how to peel a potato.”
Richard Griffiths - Monty
Richard R. Grant - Withnail

“I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.”
Richard Griffiths On Bette Davis, Jane Russell

“I don't think I'd live in London unless you paid me.”
Richard Griffiths

“I hate being the subject of photographs.”
Richard Griffiths

“It's not that I'm sick of the theater, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of the commitment.”
Richard Griffiths

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

“- Withnail: Monty used to act.
- Monty: Well, I'd hardly say that. It's true, I crept the boards in my youth. But I never really had it in my blood, and that's what's so essential, isn't it, theatrical zeal in the veins. Alas I have little more than vintage wine and memories.”
Richard R. Grant - Withnail
Richard Griffiths - Monty

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something, a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things, that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.”
Richard Griffiths - Hector

“- Arkady Renko: I'm trying to save a life.
- Anton: Whose?
- Arkady Renko: Mine! I'm on a case that reeks of KGB involvement.”
William Hurt - Arkady Renko
Richard Griffiths - Anton

“I've reached my limit, do you hear? This is the last I'm gonna take of you and your nonsense!”
Richard Griffiths - Uncle Vernon

“Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on.”
Richard Griffiths - Hector

“- Dr. Mainheimer: You're thinking about him again, aren't you? What was his name? Frank?
- Jane Spencer: Yes.
- Dr. Mainheimer: You just can't forget him, can you?
- Jane Spencer: Who?
- Dr. Mainheimer: Frank!”
Richard Griffiths - Dr. Meinheimer
Priscilla Presley - Jane Spencer

“- Ralph: How long do you think you're gonna be needing me? I've never held a job for more than six months.
- Phipps: Well, you see, a king is a king for life.
- Ralph: Good, 'cause my schedule's wide open.”
John Goodman - Ralph
Richard Griffiths - Phipps