I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
BEN ELTONThe appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
More Ben Elton Quotes
-
-
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
BEN ELTON -
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
BEN ELTON -
The 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 ELTON -
We’ve all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that’s all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it’s just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
BEN ELTON -
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
BEN ELTON -
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
BEN ELTON -
My 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 ELTON -
I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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 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 -
Kingsley 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.
BEN ELTON -
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
BEN ELTON -
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
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 -
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