A Quote by David Farr

The character of Robin Hood stands for the deep anger of the dispossessed against the ruling classes.

David Farr

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Anger Against Character Classes Deep Hood Robin Robin Hood Ruling Ruling Class Stands

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David Farr
American - Businessman
Born: 1955

If you outlaw half a million people you make martyrs of them. For example, if you outlaw Robin Hood, it is all very well, but if you outlaw a whole group of people around Robin Hood, then Robin Hood and his merry men become legends.

Baldur von Schirach

I thought I'd write a massive postmodern novel about Richard the Lionheart and Robin Hood, but it turns out they couldn't have met because the first mention of Robin Hood appears 60 years after Richard died.

Justin Cartwright

I was proud of 'Robin Hood,' even though critics wrote negative things. But I had to laugh when this big, shaven-headed Hungarian stunt guy first saw me. He said, 'You Jonas? You playing Robin Hood? You need to go to the gym today.' So I thought, 'I'm going to show people.'

Jonas Armstrong

I was very struck by the fact that Robin Hood became increasingly taken over by the middle and upper classes. He starts out a bandit but becomes a fully fledged aristocrat.

David Farr

One of my earliest inspirations was the 'Allan-a-Dale' character played by Elton Hayes in the 1954 movie 'The Story Of Robin Hood And His Merrie Men.' He was a wandering minstrel with his guitar.

Denny Laine

Interestingly, this character [Doctor Nash] is probably closer to me than somebody like the evil Sir Godfrey in Robin Hood or Lord Blackwood who wants to take over the world in Sherlock Holmes. This is a character that's English, he's based in London, and so it's closer to me than a lot of stuff I've been doing recently.

Mark Strong

In P7, I played Robin in a musical version of 'Robin Hood' and afterwards DO McLean was standing with mum and dad and he told them that I should go into drama. It is still extraordinary to me that a man in that period would think that that was an option for me.

Denis Lawson

I'm no savior, and I'm no Robin Hood.

J Balvin

All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.

Frank Zappa

In 'Robin Hood,' I did quarterstaff fighting.

Brooke Elliott

I'm no robin hood, I enjoy making the money.

Carl Icahn

Like Robin Hood....Not real, but true.

Janette Rallison

When I was a kid, my favorite superhero was Robin Hood.

Stan Lee

What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.

Rand Paul

The reason it's called 'The Heart of Robin Hood' is that he starts off not having a heart - or certainly not being in contact with it. And through a series of stories, he learns to discover that he has one. He becomes much more dramatic as a character, to be honest, because there's something rather too smug about the endless do-gooder.

David Farr

This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

Van Morrison

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