Rex Quotes

"My screen persona is a combination of Jack Buchanan, Noel Coward and Rex Harrison. I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be, and, finally, I became that person. Or he became me".

(on Rex Harrison) Rex Harrison was in a strange kind of mood in "Midnight Lace" no doubt because his wife Kay Kendall had died. He had very little time for me or anybody else, as far as I could tell; he did his job and that was it.

When I was ten we moved and I decided that none of the names I was then called - Reggie, Bobby, Baa - suited me. Somehow I hit on Rex. I must have heard someone calling for their dog and thought it sounded rather nice.

(quote by Rachel Roberts, Harrison`s fourth wife): Rex cannot be pleased. Servants have got slapped with his tongue or hand. Eventually his servants and wives leave him. Rex is one of those who thinks living well is the best revenge. It may be, but the revenge is taken out on his nearest and dearest.

(Rex`s son, Noel Harrison, recalling sitting watching a storm with his father and Rex exclaiming this when a bolt of lightning obliterated a tree in their yard): Well hit, God!

I was lucky that Andy Tennant changed a lot of the dialogue. The original draft had language the way Rex Harrison speaks, talking in old Oxford English, it was almost like Shakespeare, but Andy modernized it.

(on Rex Harrison) He`s the actor I`ve learned most from. Whenever I used to think about how I would play a part I would first think how Rex would approach it.

He and Rex would go to Hardy Farms, get a big bag and ride around and eat those peanuts while checking the crops.

Maddox was enthralled by the T-Rex exhibit.

He and Rex would go to Hardy Farms, get a big bag and ride around and eat those peanuts while checking the crops.

I usually work in Montana, that`s where I was born and raised and that`s where there are lots of places to look, ... Right now I`m looking for animals like Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Some years ago the Smithsonian wanted a T-rex for its new dinosaur hall,

We`d love it if the light-rail line opened (to DU) prior to the full T-REX,

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. (In regione caecorum rex est luscus.)

Rex can play every instrument in the band. We`re just glad he can`t play them all at once, or we`d be out of a job.