I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.
I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.
Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.
Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.
Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.
In 1973, Richard published his only book of Poetry called I, in the membership of my days.
In 1956, Richard appeared in & directed Winter Journey (based on the Country Girl) by Clifford Odet. At the Irving Theatre London.
In 1957, Richard appeared in Macbeth by William Shakespeare. At the theatre Royal, Stratford East, London; Zurich and on the Moscow tour.
In 1958, Richard appeared in Man, Beast & Virtue by Luigi Pirandekko. At the Theatre Royal, Stratford east and The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London.
In 1957, Richard appeared in And the wind blew by Edgar de Rocha Miranda. At the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London.
In 1959, Richard appeared in The Dutch Courtesan by John Marston. At the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London .
In 1990, Richard appeared in the play Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello on the British Tour and at Wyndham's Theatre, London.
In 1963, Richard appeared in the play Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol. At the Royal Theatre Court, London.
In 2002, Richard narrated a behind-the-scenes promotional trailer for the upcoming film, Teresa (bio-pic of Mother Teresa, starring Olivia Hussey).
Richard played the "King" in Pirandello's Enrico Quarto in London's West End in 1989.
Richard portrayed "King Arthur" in the Hit musical Camelot on Broadway in 1982, and London in 1983.
Richard was close friends with Sir Sean Connery.
It was Richard's lifelong ambition to play Hamlet. He never did, although he referred to This Sporting Life (1962) as his Hamlet and The Field (1990) as his Lear. He later had one final attempt at an updated version of Lear with My Kingdom (2001).
Richard once said in an interview that he had a great fascination with authority figures and their use of power. During his career he portrayed "King Arthur" in Camelot (1967), "Oliver Cromwell" in Cromwell (1970), "King Richard the Lionheart" in Robin and Marian (1976), "Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius" in Gladiator (2000), and "Headmaster Albus Dumbledore" in the first two Harry Potter films.
Richard was a Member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in Stratford Upon Avon, England, since the early 1960s. His last appearance on the Swan stage (RSC main) was in the mid-1990s.
When Richard was applying to universities, he was rejected by the Royal Adademy of Dramatic Art.
Both Richard and his fellow Irish actor (and close friend), Peter O'Toole appeared in versions of Gulliver's Travels: Harris played the title character in the 1977 film version and O'Toole played the Emperor of Lilliput in the 1996 TV-film version, where Ted Danson played Gulliver.
Following Richard's death, many of his family members wanted friend Peter O'Toole to take the role of "Albus Dumbledore" in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).
Richard died shortly before the U.S. premiere of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).
While Richard was still a student, he rented the tiny "off-West End" Irving Theatre in London, and directed his own production of Odets' Winter Journey (The Country Girl). The critics approved, but the production used up all his savings, and he was forced to sleep in a coal cellar for six weeks.
Richard was one of nine children born to Limerick farmer Ivan Harris and his wife, the former Mildred Harty.
Richard, Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton were drinking buddies in the early 1970s till Burton's death.
Richard received an Honorary Doctorate from the University Of Scranton in 1987.
Richard was the father of director Damian Harris, and actors Jared Harris and Jamie Harris.
Richard married twice over his lifetime. First to Elizabeth Rees from 1957 to 1969. Then to Ann Turkel from 1974 until their divorce in 1982.
Richard sadly died during filming of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Some scenes still included him.
Richard is the voice behind the O2 Commercials.
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