For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you’ll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
BEN ELTONKingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.
More Ben Elton Quotes
-
-
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
BEN ELTON -
If 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 ELTON -
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
BEN ELTON -
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
BEN ELTON -
Comedy 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 ELTON -
Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
BEN ELTON -
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
BEN ELTON -
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
BEN ELTON -
I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
BEN ELTON -
If 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 ELTON -
I 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 ELTON -
I 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 ELTON -
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 ELTON -
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
BEN ELTON -
There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I’ve made a great living doing the things I want to do.
BEN ELTON