I am happy most of the time. Ronnie Corbett More Quotes by Ronnie Corbett More Quotes From Ronnie Corbett A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals. Ronnie Corbett funny-jokes criminals prison It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it. Ronnie Corbett whisky whiskey age I wasn't a very athletic boy. I was once lapped in the long jump Ronnie Corbett athletic boys long I certainly treasure the memory and indeed the picture, which still hangs in my house in Scotland, of Ronnie Barker and I with the Choir when we came to Wales to shoot our Welsh choir section of the "Two Ronnies" programme. You are very close to my heart. Ronnie Corbett heart memories two I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily. Ronnie Corbett nice people thinking I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any darkness. Ronnie Corbett darkness happy life happy-life 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. Ronnie Corbett castle some trapped garden 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. Ronnie Corbett you lunch love people I have been in the business for 62 years. It's a match made in heaven. Ronnie Corbett match business heaven years It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that. Ronnie Corbett good time manners funny All those I admired as a young performer had a calmness to their comedy. Ronnie Corbett those calmness comedy young I just keep jogging along, and people seem to like me. And for that I am very grateful. Ronnie Corbett i-am me grateful people Comedy taste changes. It only changes slightly, but there's always a different angle, a different attitude. Ronnie Corbett changes always comedy attitude Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. Ronnie Corbett than going you idiot 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. Ronnie Corbett good radio done love As you get older, you worry about your memory. Ronnie Corbett your memory you worry 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. Ronnie Corbett think you style sometimes 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. Ronnie Corbett classy you always confidence My first pet at home in Edinburgh was a dog my dad had called Glen. He was a small sheepdog and went with my dad every day to work as manager of a cooking centre, which made the children's lunches for schools. Ronnie Corbett day work home children We did Donald McGill, seaside-postcard stuff - middle of the road. Ronnie Corbett did road middle stuff
