Richard Quotes

Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded.

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.

I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.

I love Richard Pryor. I love him to death.

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character.

Richard Branson once said: 'Tony's very good at selling bands and he's very good at making television programmes. But he'll never be great at either, until he decides which one he wants to do.' I entirely accept that. That doesn't matter to me very much. I like the irony of the two lives.

We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat.

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.

Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me.

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.

It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.

The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

I have felt some twinges recently, about parts I wanted to play that I may be getting too old and fat to do. 'Hamlet,' for example - maybe that's gone. I would love to play Richard II.

I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.