Oliver Reed Quotes

“A bird sings in the morning, an owl hoots at night ... it's still a bloody bird.”

— Oliver Reed

“Do what you must, but do it well, above all enjoy yourself!”

— Oliver Reed

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

— Oliver Reed

“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

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

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

— Oliver Reed

I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.

— Oliver Reed

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

— Oliver Reed

“I like the effect drink has on me.”

— Oliver Reed

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

— Oliver Reed

“Awe and respect are two different things.”

— Oliver Reed

“What's the point of staying sober?”

— Oliver Reed

“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.”

— Oliver Reed

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

— 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

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

— Oliver Reed

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

— Oliver Reed

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

— Oliver Reed

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

— Oliver Reed

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

— 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

“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

“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

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

— Oliver Reed

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

— Oliver Reed

“I'm really a pacifist.”

— Oliver Reed

“I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I'd like to think that I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave.”

— Oliver Reed

“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.”

— Oliver Reed

“I would much rather end up a fertiliser under a sunflower which is eventually made into sunflower seed oil so that instead of nibbling me in her prawn cocktail, the pretty girl will rub me on her bristols as she suns herself on a beach in the Caribbean.”

— Oliver Reed

“You meet a better class of person in pubs,”

— Oliver Reed

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

— Oliver Reed

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

— Oliver Reed

I've been drinking. Now I'm going to drink some more.

— Oliver Reed