Sponsored
Person
Richard Wilson
Comments
Ask this entity anything:
Free account · your comment posts right after signup
Person
Free account · your comment posts right after signup
Richard Wilson (born Iain Carmichael Wilson; 9 July 1936) is a Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster. He is most famous for playing Victor Meldrew in the BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave. Another notable role was as Gaius, the court physician of Camelot, in the BBC drama Merlin.
“I’d better get back to work. It’s like butting my head against a stone wall, but somebody’s got to keep butting, if only for the sake of other people’s morale.”
“You’re as nutty as a peck of pecans, ma’am.”
“We’ll jump off that bridge when we come to it.”
“I folded the paper and wriggled around in the seat. Buses are like candy bars, I thought. The price goes up and the size goes down. Each new bus seem to have less leg room and a lower headrest that its predecessor, so that you had to be a contortionist to take a nap.”
““I’ve made my choice, Sam,” she had written. “I had to choose between what I wanted and what I could get. There are times when the ideal is just too unattainable and when the second best becomes, in the long run, the best. Maybe this also has a universal application. I hope so.””
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
Not who you're looking for? Others named Richard Wilson: senior officer in the Australian Army · English stage actor; (1744-1796) · English former professional footballer, born 1960 · Australian businessman (20th century)
In the Arcade
Studio characters
