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 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.
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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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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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.
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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.
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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.
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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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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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I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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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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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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