Top 30 Quotes by Richard Griffiths

I was big and fat and had weird parents.

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.

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.

I hate being the subject of photographs.

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

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 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.

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

I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.

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