I always felt I had to fill silences, usually by singing or whistling. It was nerves and shyness, really. Rolf Harris More Quotes by Rolf Harris More Quotes From Rolf Harris If it's free put me down for two please Rolf Harris economics please two When you have been in TV and performing for as long as I have, you realise that you probably entertain in your sleep too... as for my catch phrase, I didn't actually say so much 'Can you see what it is yet? Rolf Harris tvs sleep long If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person. Rolf Harris finishing faces world I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait. Rolf Harris portraits painting feelings When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile. Rolf Harris portraits draws self I've always tried to retain that childlike wonder. Rolf Harris tried always childlike wonder 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 good you car wife When I was presenting 'Animal Hospital,' the grey started to creep into my beard and moustache. I used my wife's mascara to darken it. Rolf Harris hospital beard wife animal For sheer creativity and totality of involvement, 'Rolf's Cartoon Club' with HTV in Bristol was an amazing show to work on, but I think the 'Rolf on Art' series, culminating in the painting of the Queen's portrait to celebrate her 80th birthday, just nudges into the favourite spot. Rolf Harris queen work birthday art I was always different from all the other kids, and I was doing things that nobody else did or seemed to have any interest in. Rolf Harris nobody doing things always 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 best good age art As I walked up the imposing steps of the Royal Academy, I came fact to face with Alwen Hughes. She looked just as stunning as she had done in my first year at art school. Rolf Harris face royal art school 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 been always universe I remember very vividly what it's like to be a child. The adults you liked were the ones who listened to you when you spoke and gave you time to say what you wanted to say and actually listened, and quite often reacted as a result of what you'd said. Rolf Harris child you time remember Try and spread a lot of love and affection around the world. The most important thing is not to 'con' the public. Be real. Rolf Harris try important love world 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 doing like prison art I regard myself as being enormously lucky to have been accepted by the British public in so many areas. Rolf Harris been being myself lucky 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 camera you painting people My approach to painting doesn't involve any heavy thinking about how am I going to present this, what am I going to do. Rolf Harris present how painting thinking If I could go back in time, I'd return to when my parents were alive and appreciate them more than I did when I was growing up. Rolf Harris parents growing-up appreciate time
