British Quotes

I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.

Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle.

Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.

Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

To tell you the truth, it's a complex piece, so I can't really answer your question at present.

If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?

I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it.

He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't?

He has all those different aspects to him, so I can more or less decide as a performer how I'm going to deliver a line in a particular scene, or play a particular scene in total.

Also, from a technical point of view, as you're standing in front of a microphone all day, it's quite a good idea that I should play a laid back sort of character because if he was too frenetic, I'd be exhausted by lunch!

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.

I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

I am still working on patter and presentation.

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

You'll like this, not a lot, but you'll like it.

Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist.

I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.

Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.

And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.