Top 140 Rubbish Quotes

I know so many acting careers that are deliberately kickstarted by a publicist placing a bit of rubbish in a newspaper. And I don’t want that. If someone recognises me, I want it to be because they’ve seen me in something, not because they have seen me at something.

There’s a classic medical aphorism: ‘Listen to the patient; they’re telling you the diagnosis.’ Actually, a lot of patients are just telling you a lot of rubbish, and you have to stop them and ask the pertinent questions. But, yes, in both drama and medicine, isolated facts can accumulate to create the narrative.

I’m really rubbish at putting anything on my skin, because I don’t like the feel of it. But I do love Kate Moss’ Rimmel lipsticks – I keep them in all my coat pockets.

I never believe it when people claim they knew they wanted to be actors when they were 4 or 5 years old. I think that’s rubbish. When you’re that age, you just like showing off.

People suppose that you are great if you win and rubbish if you lose. Well, actually, whatever the result I still know what I am doing.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

We think; therefore, we often talk rubbish.

So everybody is trying to play like Eddie Van Halen. I think it’s rubbish. I think Eddie’s great, but everyone’s trying to do what he does and it doesn’t make for a lot of interesting music.

Some of them are good while some are rubbish! But I am grateful for all my films.

A fresh and vigorous weed, always renewed and renewing, it will cut its wondrous way through rubbish and rubble.

Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don’t listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They’re games. They prepare you for nothing.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

Teachers say to me, ‘The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.’ But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find wrong information on Google, and where it’s not obvious that it’s wrong.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars – BMW’s mostly – for myself and my family.

The BBC say we need more working-class comedies, which is rubbish. We need funny comedies; it doesn’t matter where they come from.

I used to go out wearing any old rubbish, no make-up, nothing, but since mobile phones, that has all had to stop. People do come up to you so often and say hello, or want a photograph, and I just can’t do it anymore in what I used to wear. They don’t want to be seen hanging off a rabid old granny any more than I do.

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare’s rubbish.

We’ve been clear that schools shouldn’t just tackle direct homophobic bullying, but also the use of phrases like ‘that’s so gay’ to mean rubbish or bad, because we know the devastating impact they can have on young people’s self-esteem.

This perception that we can be stars without any work and just appear is rubbish.

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

I went to this rubbish school. I asked the careers master what he thought that I was going to do with my life, and he said I could always visit criminals in prison.

On the pitch, I argue, I shout, I talk rubbish and generally do anything I can to get ahead.

I most definitely would not buy the ‘Daily Mail,’ which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyelids of the average Brit – I skimmed through a copy recently and couldn’t believe the rubbish in it.

My iPod’s unbelievable. Seriously. The kids have put most of the music on it, but there’s a complete mix of ’80s rubbish and current day stuff.

When people chat to me about my childhood and getting into horses, they’re like, ‘Was it like the birds sang and the sun came out? Was it an amazing experience?’ I’m like, ‘No, it was rubbish. I was frightened. I was pretty unbalanced, and most ponies took advantage of me.’

My father used to say, ‘What the hell are you listening to? Put that bloody rubbish off.’ And it was The Beatles.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

I’m a love it or hate it kind of person, either really loud or really quiet, and things are either fantastic or rubbish.

I’m actually rubbish at selfies. I always feel a bit ridiculous doing it unless I’m with a bunch of friends, where I’ll usually stand at the back with a huge grin on my face!

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Like most comedians, I have crippling low self-esteem, so I always think that what I’ve just done is rubbish.

On the face of it there is a pristine white sandy beach, but within an hour, around 100 of us can collect up to 250-300 kilos of rubbish. It’s mostly bits of plastic, fishing line, nylon, bottle caps. We’ve found everything.

I don’t want to be sitting and pondering over how many stars my film will get. It’s rubbish! I make films that I like – some get really appreciated, and some don’t. Till now, luckily, they have done well, but I can’t become a slave to that. And I won’t – never!

You know the way it is: sometimes Americans think of us as their backward little cousin. It’s the whole shamrock, potatoes, famine, leprechaun thing, all that drunken paddies rubbish.

None of us knows what a good or bad person is. In real life we’re all brilliant and a bit rubbish.

I’m pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It’s impressive.

It gets slightly daunting if you’re watching the telly and everybody’s gorgeous. It’s just so rubbish. And I’m grateful that it’s not so much anymore – it’s great to see.

I’m tempted by rubbish food after wins.

Sometimes it can be difficult for me if Ross writes something inaccurate or hurtful. Ronald Ferguson used to ring me up and say, ‘Ingie, Major here! What rubbish has your husband been writing about me now?’

Oh god, I’m a rubbish cook.

For me to create an album of 12 songs, I’ve got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish. But I get to some really good stuff after a while.

There are so many cliches associated with mental health – such as the ‘fine line between lunacy and genius’ – which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don’t think you’re very good at it – which is rubbish. You’re missing out here.

Having brothers – I love that. They don’t take any rubbish, and they beat you up if you’ve been misbehaving.

I think Robbie Williams is an utter and complete prat. His last record was a pile of rubbish.

It’s nice to get home and do normal stuff. Put the rubbish out, do the school run – it means you stay grounded. I knew a horn player who was so used to being on the road that he became institutionalised; he could never adjust to being at home. I’m really glad I didn’t let it get that far.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

I miss the BBC when I’m away. I’m away so much that it’s a pleasure just walking back through the door and sitting on the sofa to watch some rubbish TV.

People don’t want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they’ve achieved anything. It doesn’t work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don’t deserve to be getting lottery money.

If you want rubbish, you will get rubbish.

I’m not on Twitter or any of that rubbish. I’m an old man.

There’s this perception that you can’t be more than one thing. That if you’re dubbed ‘sexy’ you can no longer be anything else. That you become intellectually uncomplicated, incapable of accomplishing anything other than appearing to be an object for men. And it’s rubbish.

I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There’s all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there’s a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like ‘Dallas.’ It’s pure entertainment.

World class players don’t become rubbish overnight, especially over one tour.

I’m not one for going out on the town on Friday night, as I’ve never been a big drinker, so I like getting the rubbish jobs out of the way so we can enjoy our free time.

Women’s tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.

My paintings are rubbish.

In general, I’m rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it’s like being in a sweet shop: they’re pretty. But I’m not good in them. I don’t walk nicely in heels.

I hear radio plays that I did 20 years ago and I can’t bear it; I see things on telly that I made six months ago and I just hate them. I could name on one hand the things that I think are OK; the rest of it is just rubbish and embarrassing.