Words matter. These are the best Robert Powell Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I have always been attracted to difficult work. There really doesn’t seem much point in looking for the easy life as an actor. I would simply get bored.
When you get back from a trip, make a note of what you didn’t wear. This will avoid packing it unnecessarily next time.
I love being on stage. I’m completely, totally relaxed. It’s the only time in my life when I know where I am and what’s coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let’s just say happiness isn’t my default position. There are dark parts. I’m very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.
A boy is naturally full of humor.
In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
I was there at the birth of my son and had the extraordinary feeling when I first saw him of thinking this was the first person I would willingly die for. I had the same strong feelings when my daughter was born.
I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.
The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.
There’s not a human being alive I won’t talk to. There’s a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.
When I die, I want to be the only person in the world not to have seen ‘The Sound Of Music.’
The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people – who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.
In the 1950s, as food rationing ended, I remember a plentiful supply of sweets for the first time.
I was 24 when I was offered ‘Doomwatch.’ There was an option for a further series, and I turned it down. It is a wonderfully glorious thing to be unknowingly arrogant.
I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I’m totally honest. You change. Things alter. It’s the exception rather than the rule and I think it’s exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It’s hard work.
There is no teaching to compare with example.
