Quotes from Ronnie Corbett

All those I admired as a young performer had a calmness to their comedy.

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.

I have not survived 50 years in showbusiness by being Mr. Nice. If you are weak, this business eats you up.

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?'

It's difficult to be clean and clever at the same time, but a lot of our stuff was.

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.

What is so good about 'Gavin and Stacey' is that it is very real, Welsh, and well written.

We had a certain kind of material that was not dangerously esoteric.

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.

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.

It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.

Golf is the most fascinating game, but other people's game is the most boring thing.

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.

If I change car, I change car. I don't get very fond of things.

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.

A cement mixer collided with a prison van. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for sixteen hardened criminals.

I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.

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 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 used to have a theory in my mind that if no serious move had happened before I was 38 - not 40, oddly - then I would move into management or something. Fortunately, I was offered 'The Frost Report' when I was 37, so that was a close thing, too.

My father instilled attention to detail and a sense of duty and responsibility.

I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any darkness.

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.

I just keep jogging along, and people seem to like me. And for that I am very grateful.