Robert Powell Quotes

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.
Robert Powell

Smile, Through, Found

A boy is naturally full of humor.
Robert Powell

Humor, Full, Boy

I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.
Robert Powell

Life, Love, Happiness

I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule and I think it's exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It's hard work.
Robert Powell

Change, Work, Hard

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
Robert Powell

Himself, Boy, Encouraged

It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.
Robert Powell

Time, Everyone, Picture

Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.
Robert Powell

Job, Try, Difficult

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.
Robert Powell

Good, Find, Boy

There is no teaching to compare with example.
Robert Powell

Example, Teaching, Compare

There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.
Robert Powell

Simple, Human, Ignore

With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. Hotels are now out of the question for my wife and I.
Robert Powell

Wife, Social, Question

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: June 1, 1944

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