Like anyone else I have my downs, and acting can be tough. — Bernard Cribbins Acting Copy Share Image
I'm a fisherman, so I like places like the River Test in Hampshire, which is wonderfully peaceful. — Bernard Cribbins Fish Copy Share Image
Showbusiness keeps me young. I'll carry on until I have to stop. — Bernard Cribbins Actor Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're a labourer and you get engaged to do certain jobs. I was just asked to do some kids'… — Bernard Cribbins Actor Copy Share Image
The origins of my recording career go back to a revue show in 1961 or 62, something like that, called 'And Another Thing.' — Bernard Cribbins Copy Share Image
My parents didn't read to me. My dad was a jobbing labourer, my mother was in the cotton mills. — Bernard Cribbins Dad Copy Share Image
Like anyone else I have my downs, and acting can be tough - I was doing a 70-hour week when I was 14. — Bernard Cribbins Acting Copy Share Image
School was all right, but I was quite happy to go to work, I must say. — Bernard Cribbins Copy Share Image
The thing about dogs is they give you unconditional love - and they don't have teenage years! — Bernard Cribbins Animal Copy Share Image
When Jon Pertwee was leaving I went to be interviewed with a view to perhaps playing Doctor Who. I would have loved… — Bernard Cribbins Doctor Copy Share Image
I did think of becoming a ballet dancer at one point. I had a girlfriend who was teaching in the ballet school.… — Bernard Cribbins Ballet Copy Share Image
What I like about 'Old Jack's Boat' is that it's just like 'Jackanory' - me telling a tale straight to camera with… — Bernard Cribbins Copy Share Image
I don't think Right Said Fred had permission to use the title. But they were quite a good group. Quite camp! I… — Bernard Cribbins Comic Copy Share Image
I'm still certain if either myself, or Dame Judi Dench or the late Kenny Williams read a story, kids would sit and… — Bernard Cribbins Copy Share Image
That's what kids' TV is all about. It entertains; it stimulates; it educates, and maybe, in some cases, it unlocks a bit… — Bernard Cribbins Children Copy Share Image
To be honest, if somebody offered me a job telling yet more stories on television for tiddlers I'd be just as happy… — Bernard Cribbins Copy Share Image
When I was a lad, our holidays were always during Oldham wakes week when the cotton mills closed down and everyone decamped… — Bernard Cribbins Copy Share Image
Each adult will say William Hartnell was the best, or Jon Pertwee, or Patrick Troughton, or whoever it might have been. You've… — Bernard Cribbins Copy Share Image
My first 'Jackanory' story was in black and white in the late 1960s... and I used one of those Pollock Toy theatres… — Bernard Cribbins Black and white Copy Share Image
One day, we were late getting into the studio to record. The people before us were going over their slot. We waited… — Bernard Cribbins Day Copy Share Image
January 4, 1943, is when I became a professional actor-cum-thespian. — Bernard Cribbins Actor Copy Share Image
I get very annoyed when you can't concentrate on what is going on because so much is happening. — Bernard Cribbins Copy Share Image
Ninety is just another number. I know that one deteriorates after 70. — Bernard Cribbins Copy Share Image
Reading bedtime stories as a family activity seems to have been overtaken by other forms of entertainment. — Bernard Cribbins Bedtime Copy Share Image
I have an array of voices. And intensity is a word you might use. — Bernard Cribbins Array Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have been right for James Bond. I would have been a good sidekick. — Bernard Cribbins Bond Copy Share Image
I always say we used to learn how to throw half-bricks at our school. You know, running about and being silly. Fighting. — Bernard Cribbins Copy Share Image
It would have been nice to be parents, but I don't feel wistful about it any more. — Bernard Cribbins Copy Share Image
When you have to rehearse with some gorgeous lady and have to kiss her, there has to be temptation. — Bernard Cribbins Copy Share Image
