13 Rolf Harris Quotes for You to Enjoy

Rolf Harris

Australian Entertainer

Born: Mar 30, 1930

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I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.' Rolf Harris

I've always tried to retain that childlike wonder. Rolf Harris

Tried Retain Always Wonder Childlike

I was being singled out as the best in the class at this, that and the other, nearly always to do with art. And then I was a very good swimmer from a very early age, and once again the best in the class, and when I was about five or six, I was the best in the school. Rolf Harris

I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was the hub of the universe. Rolf Harris

Parents Every Universe Had Implicitly Always Been Hub Inference Britain

Prison is no hardship, really. I'm in the art room as an assistant to the tutor, and basically, I'm doing what I like. Rolf Harris

Art Prison Like Doing Room Really Tutor Hardship Assistant Basically

I regard myself as being enormously lucky to have been accepted by the British public in so many areas. Rolf Harris

Myself Area Accepted Been Being Regard Public Many Lucky British

People can see you on TV sloshing paint around with big four-inch brushes, and I learned to talk to camera in a friendly voice, not talking down to people, just explaining what I was doing. People like Picasso, Van Gogh, and Rembrandt did not have a weekly TV programme where people could see them painting. Rolf Harris

You People Big Not Talking Down Painting TV Van Van Gogh See Voice Brushes Could Weekly Rembrandt Picasso Like Talk Learned Talking Around Doing Camera Friendly Did Gogh Just Where Explaining Them Paint Programme

I always felt I had to fill silences, usually by singing or whistling. It was nerves and shyness, really. Rolf Harris

Singing Silences Nerves Had Felt Always Really Whistling Fill Shyness

George Martin recorded a lot of my stuff before the Beatles, so I observed their meteoric rise. Rolf Harris

Beatles Before Martin Rise Recorded Observed Stuff George Lot

I hope that maybe I am on this planet to try and spread a bit of love and affection and to try and help people to warm toward their fellow man instead of all this destruction and misery. Rolf Harris

People say 'Are you going to retire?' To me, that sort of equates with lying down and dying. When you're doing something you love to do, why would you stop? Rolf Harris

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