Richard Briers famous quotes

03-22-2025

I have been in the series for over 3 years - 3 series. There will be a fourth series next year which of course I won't be in because I'm now dead. So in total I appeared in 25 episodes.
-- Richard Briers

#Years #Next Year #Episodes
An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.
-- Richard Briers

#Garden #Perspective #Mind
A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.
-- Richard Briers

#Jobs #Garden #Forever
I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world!
-- Richard Briers

#Love #Character #Laughing
I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.
-- Richard Briers

#Theatre #Tvs #Recycling
I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.
-- Richard Briers

#Firsts #Roles #Corny
Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales.
-- Richard Briers

#Talent #Scales #Right Time
I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.
-- Richard Briers

#People #Acting #Taught
I make it a point of honour to have a couple of gnomes in my garden as silent testimony to the right of gnome-lovers everywhere to do their own thing without fear of snide remarks.
-- Richard Briers

#Couple #Garden #Lovers

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!
No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.
But if it comes down to next year, I'll be picketing outside of Halas Hall for a new deal, a new contract, because I'm not going anyplace.
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.
I hope that people like us next year like they liked us last year.
Well, I just finished starring in a new episode of the new The Twilight Zone television series.

Richard Briers famous quotes

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