Brian Blessed famous quotes

04-22-2025

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertakers assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
-- Brian Blessed

#Dream #Father #Military
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
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 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
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
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
Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures.
-- Brian Blessed

#Kindness #Compassion #Wish
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

#People #Track #Mad
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
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
The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet.
-- Brian Blessed

#Quiet #Loud #Pensive
In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!"
-- Brian Blessed

#Submarines #Alive #Sailor
I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.
-- Brian Blessed

#Animal #Awful #Bloody
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I threw [Picasso's] drawing on the floor and in doing so, threw away about £50m.
-- Brian Blessed

#Drawing
I've always hated it when people overspend, are spoilt or throw their money away.
-- Brian Blessed

#People #Hated #Spoilt
When I was in Downing Street, David Cameron saw me and said, "Please, shout it all around and let it penetrate to my cabinet meeting." So I bellowed: "Gordon's alive!"
-- Brian Blessed

#Downing Street #Alive #Saws
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
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
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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