My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
BEN ELTONYes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
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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.
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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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.
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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.
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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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!
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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.
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