Words matter. These are the best Ronnie Corbett Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Dad was a baker, and Mum was tied up with church and the social club.
We go out of fashion but can also come back into fashion. So you’ve just got to hang around long enough until you are back in style.
I am happy most of the time.
I don’t want to push barriers myself. You go to see Joan Rivers to see barriers being pushed. You watch ‘Little Britain’ to see barriers being pushed.
I have been trapped in some posh toilets, including those in Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, and at Victor Spinetti’s memorial at St. Paul’s Covent Garden, I got locked in the loo.
It’s difficult to be clean and clever at the same time, but a lot of our stuff was.
We knew what mums, dads, and children would understand and enjoy without resentment. I don’t see the requirement to upset people. You’re there to entertain and please.
It is nice to be appreciated by the youngsters.
A man can add to his sexuality by being funny, whereas a woman can diminish hers. I don’t know why that’s the case: it’s completely unfair.
The funny thing about the golf swing is that you try to alter it and end up with the same faults as you’ve had all your life.
Our comedy was light-hearted amusement that seemingly tripped naturally off the tongue. That’s why I don’t think it will date.
If I change car, I change car. I don’t get very fond of things.
I suppose to the outside world I do seem slightly obsessed. But I once had a balance problem with my inner ear, and the fear loitered. Yet I have found that golf is like a yoga procedure for me: it’s had wonderful, sedative, remedial qualities for my day-to-day life.
How long does it take to make ‘They Think It’s All Over?’ It’s just laughing at each other and thinking, ‘Aren’t we clever?’
I have had the most spoiled golfing life.
All those I admired as a young performer had a calmness to their comedy.
You get fed up watching shows with not much care and love, reality programmes where they put people in a house for a fortnight and film them doing everything, or where participants arrive after lunch and do the programme at six.
Golf is the most fascinating game, but other people’s game is the most boring thing.
I like to do enough work to keep myself sharp and relevant without trying to be trendy.
I’m always nervous. A classy comedian is full of self-doubt disguised with an air of false confidence. If there isn’t self-doubt, you seem aggressive.
I have not survived 50 years in showbusiness by being Mr. Nice. If you are weak, this business eats you up.
Part of my style was getting into a muddle. Audiences think that’s part of the act. Sometimes it might be – but you have to guess which bits.
There are many comics around who don’t really have a feel for comedy. They can say outrageous things, have clever thoughts, and deliver some funny angles. But they are not genuinely funny.
We had brilliant writers on our shows, and I do think that ‘The Two Ronnies’ has stood the test of time. It was certainly the greatest fun to do.
It is all down to ‘The Two Ronnies.’ Those years with Ronnie Barker were the spine of my career.
In the old days, if you topped the bill one evening, you’d do 22 minutes maximum, and if you overstepped and did 27 one night, you’d get a knock on the door telling you it wasn’t acceptable.
We’d never do anything tasteless. There’s enough to make fun of without offending.
I love radio and have done a little bit for years – since ‘Workers’ Playtime’ in the 1950s. It’s also a good springboard for comedians.
I’ve been lucky in that I’ve always loved my job.
My father instilled attention to detail and a sense of duty and responsibility.
