I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million differe...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only ...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spen...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortun...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. Yo...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had en...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's ...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate chan...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH We are a plague on the Earth.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the hummi...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it'...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing wit...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the worl...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Crying wolf is a real danger.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or t...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of v...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans a...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are ...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or no...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as fa...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's n...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am in...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there a...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH People say we have all got to join Europe for reasons which even the economists themselves aren't cl...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're luc...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Neither have I said we have got to do this because of some pharmaceutical advantage there may or may...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my ...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the publi...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and yo...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the ...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of t...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - ...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Natural history is not about producing fables.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately ...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary st...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many pe...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is t...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in wh...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH It's about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. ...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I am not over fond of animals.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH There are perfectly good independent small nations.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH People knew that animals were nocturnal but they didn't really know what they did because they could...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Here we are with even the most obvious things like a fishing policy or a transport policy-we know wh...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH It's not just that we are dependent on the natural world for our food and for the very air we breath...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually kno...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I'm a very old BBC hand.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is w...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tend...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Things change... I don't think we should regard change as a disaster.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Just recently we were coming out of Niger and it so happened that there was a great pilgrimage so al...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think t...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH If I do a series or tapes for the States and it's sponsored by somebody for the public broadcast sys...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of in...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH You don't meet many 5-year-olds who are not interested in a hedgehog or a stickleback.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I once had aspirations to be an anthropologist, and I know from anthropology that people will not ac...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is tryi...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an ...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, s...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don&#...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercia...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I do an awful lot of appearances, and to have one person always grinding the same axe would not be a...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why th...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH It's lost on me. I can just about tell if it's got a jet engine or one of those funny things on the ...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and try...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that th...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the wee...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually kno...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even i...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's i...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely ...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I'm not in politics.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera wavi...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind t...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we've got the technology for 10 billion, probably...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope ...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I f...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfis...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of al...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don'...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH What actually happened with 'Miracle' was that someone saw me in 'Jurassic Park' and...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all ...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH If someone does something in an entertainment/pop ambience, that person becomes someone who has an i...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH The old adage about acting - that it's 98% energy and 2% talent - is true, you know.
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I ...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH If you are playing in 'Charley's Aunt,' and your favourite aunt died that lunchtime, you...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH I like to make films about people who changed the lives of others and asserted human dignity.
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH We used to indulge hopelessly as a family at Christmas. When the children were little, I dressed up ...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH There is a LIGHT in this world. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. W...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH I know I'm regarded as an establishment figure, but I was crucified by the establishment for ...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranea...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH My family were liberal with a small 'l' but passionately doers. I wanted to be a doer.
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH 'E.T.' depended absolutely on the concept of cinema, and I think that Steven Spielberg, who ...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH The family is the focal point of our existence. And up until Jane and Lucy's death, there were a...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH The bear case on this stock has gone well and truly stale, this is another good set of numbers and t...
TIM ATTENBOROUGH My main aim in 'Gandhi' was to project him as the vanguard of non-violence. Nowhere in the w...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I'm not able to deal ...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH Irreverence is an essential part of our culture.
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH If I were able to write, I probably would. But movies have given me a part of my life where I can ex...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH My father thought Gandhi was a great man. I suppose subconsciously, consciously even, I was aware th...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man: who believed that in order to ju...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or ...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us i...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomin...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH Guy was a leading figure in cinema both in the U.K. and in the United States for over 40 years, ... ...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH Guy was a leading figure in cinema both in the U.K. and in the United States for over 40 years,
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH He was a great friend and will be sorely missed on both sides of the Atlantic.
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all ...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH Guy was a leading figure in cinema both in the UK and in the United States for over 40 years.
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH It's a most unwelcome distraction. This is the third one in five or six years ... and it's been foun...
TIM ATTENBOROUGH I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably t...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH I don't use film in the way that the great auteurs do. I use film, the camera, to record as effe...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH I know Pandit Ravi Shankar was very upset with me, as I did not use his compositions in 'Gandhi....
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH I adore my family; they are my joy. However, I am committed to my work. If, on a Saturday morning wh...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the a...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven&#...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ...
DAVID DAVID KATZMAN I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar...
DAVID HAREWOOD Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world....
DAVID HAREWOOD In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ...
DAVID COVERDALE George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo...
DAVID LANGE Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...
DAVID LYNCH Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a...
DAVID CHALMERS Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
DAVID HARE The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar...
DAVID TENNANT It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik...
DAVID LETTERMAN Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i...
DAVID CRYSTAL Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
DAVID BAILEY Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
DAVID BAILEY The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The...
DAVID BAILEY I always go for simplicity.
DAVID BAILEY I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
DAVID BAILEY All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa...
DAVID BAILEY You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
DAVID BAILEY I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
DAVID BAILEY People want security in this insecure world.
DAVID BAILEY I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
DAVID BAILEY It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea...
DAVID BAILEY Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
DAVID BAILEY Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
DAVID BAILEY Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out...
DAVID BAILEY I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can p...
DAVID BAILEY If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
DAVID BAILEY I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other ...
DAVID BAILEY The skull is nature's sculpture.
DAVID BAILEY Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
DAVID BAILEY Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
DAVID BAILEY Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth...
DAVID BOWIE I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood...
LARRY DAVID You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i...
DAVID BOWIE People use irony as a defense mechanism.
DAVID BYRNE Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ...
DAVID BYRNE I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go...
DAVID BYRNE Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
DAVID BYRNE I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
DAVID BYRNE I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ...
DAVID BYRNE That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
DAVID BYRNE Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their d...
DAVID BYRNE If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea...
DAVID BYRNE My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
DAVID BYRNE On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go...
DAVID BYRNE I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
DAVID BYRNE The arts don't exist in isolation.
DAVID BYRNE There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex...
DAVID BYRNE