I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
BEN ELTONI find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
BEN ELTONI exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
BEN ELTONMy advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
BEN ELTONIf only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
BEN ELTONI’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
BEN ELTONI don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
BEN ELTONI think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
BEN ELTONArtists don’t create society, they reflect it
BEN ELTONI’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
BEN ELTONComedy will always be central to what I do, it’s just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
BEN ELTONThe earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
BEN ELTONIf I did things for the money, I’d have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and ‘Police Academy 6,’ which I was asked to write.
BEN ELTONYou didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
BEN ELTONI did not vote Labour because they’ve heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
BEN ELTONI don’t know what people who I’ve never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things – but I’m proud of the fact I’ve remained close to everyone I’ve ever worked with.
BEN ELTONMy parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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