Richard Attenborough Quotes

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.

And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.