Quotes from Oliver Reed


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Awe and respect are two different things.


If the money's right, I'll do a film.


I'm really a pacifist.


Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!


Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.


I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.


I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.


At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.


I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.


I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.


Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.


But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.


What's the point of staying sober?


When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.


I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.


I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.


I like the effect drink has on me.


I do not live in the world of sobriety.


You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.


I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.