Oliver Reed Quotes


"Awe and respect are two different things."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: Respect)

"You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: Eating)

"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."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: Home, Bed, Day)

"What's the point of staying sober?"
- Oliver Reed
"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."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: Fighting, Football, Ladies, Talking)

"Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!"
- Oliver Reed
(Related: Love)

"If the money's right, I'll do a film."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: Money, Film, Right)

"I'm really a pacifist."
- Oliver Reed
"I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: Diet, Drinking, Wine)

"I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be."
- Oliver Reed
"I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: Character, Hurt, Now)

"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."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: Clothes, Girls, Hurt, Kissing)

"I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: Women, Sex, Talk)

"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."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: Death, Food, People, Right)

"Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: People)

"But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: People, Drinking, Trouble)

"I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: Now)

"I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: Home, Work, Woman)

"I do not live in the world of sobriety."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: World)

"I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: Needs)

"I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well."
- Oliver Reed
"I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important."
- Oliver Reed
"I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: Earth, Sleep, Woman)

"I like the effect drink has on me."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: Effect)