Brian Blessed Quotes

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• The greatest danger in life is not taking chances. There are so many negative people wanting to grind you down, but you can't let them. If people say you are mad, you know you're on the right track.

  Brian Blessed

  Danger In Life, People, Track

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• You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

  Brian Blessed

  Adventure, Thinking, Danger In Life

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• I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.

  Brian Blessed

  Dad, Kids, Drawing

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• In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!"

  Brian Blessed

  Submarines, Alive, Sailor

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet.

  Brian Blessed

  Quiet, Loud, Pensive

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• I fed my Yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female Yak. I made it my pet after that.

  Brian Blessed

  Sweet, Chocolate, Pet

  "'Pamela Anderson is as impressive in her own way as the Dalai Lama': Brian Blessed on booming great form" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. March 1, 2013.

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• My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.

  Brian Blessed

  Honesty, Kindness, Adventure

  "My family values: Brian Blessed". Interview with Chris Hall, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.

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• I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children of stardust.

  Brian Blessed

  Dream, Jesus, Stars

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• I can't retire from life. I love life too much and I cannot wait to start the day.

  Brian Blessed

  Love Life, Waiting, Too Much

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.

  Brian Blessed

  Animal, Awful, Bloody

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond!

  Brian Blessed

  Moon, Space, Training

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• I'll never retire. The new millennium is the age of adventure as far as I am concerned. I'm going up a volcano and off into space.

  Brian Blessed

  Adventure, Volcanoes, Space

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• There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among the Pemon people and meditate. When the time is right, they can throw my body into the volcano.

  Brian Blessed

  Volcanoes, America, People

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• In the news this week, the polls continue to slide for Gordon Brown and some people are saying he's dead and buried. But I think the opposite - I say GORDON'S ALIVE!

  Brian Blessed

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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• My dream is to own a Hockney - I'm a Yorkshireman, and his vibrant colours are a good example of how the north-country people are vibrant and colourful.

  Brian Blessed

  Dream, Country, People

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• Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures.

  Brian Blessed

  Kindness, Compassion, Wish

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• People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in 'Flash Gordon,' I put as much energy into it as I would with 'King Lear' - it's all part of the same thing.

  Brian Blessed

  Kings, Thinking, Differences

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• Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

  Brian Blessed

  Winning, Ninety Nine, Making Money

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miners son should go to drama school.

  Brian Blessed

  Drama, School, Son

  "My family values: Brian Blessed". Interview with Chris Hall, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.

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• When I was 11 I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.

  Brian Blessed

  Teacher, Actors, Great Actors

  "My mentor". Interview with Deany Judd, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.

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• When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and explore. I wanted to go to the Lost World in South America - I was heartbroken to discover there were no dinosaurs; I still don't accept it.

  Brian Blessed

  Heartbroken, Children, America

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• I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe.

  Brian Blessed

  Two, Climbing, Scotland

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• I've become quite a serious explorer: I've been to Everest three times; I'm the oldest man to reach the North Pole; and I've just been to the lost world of Venezuela.

  Brian Blessed

  Men, Serious, Three

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• I've always hated it when people overspend, are spoilt or throw their money away.

  Brian Blessed

  People, Hated, Spoilt

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m.

  Brian Blessed

  Drawing

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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