Quotes from Oliver Reed

I'm really a pacifist.

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

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.

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

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.

Awe and respect are two different things.

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

Life shouldn't be about sitting around staring at frosted glass. Life should be lived and that's all there is to it.

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

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

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

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

There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business ... I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly corresponds to scoring a century be fore lunch.

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

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

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

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.

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 do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.

What's the point of staying sober?

I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

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

Winner gave me my bread and Russell gave me my art.