Norman Wisdom Quotes

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• I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry
• I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.
• I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put…
• I can never tell a joke, I've always found it easier to just fall over.
• My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line,…
• I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen.
• All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.
• I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.
• I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have…
• I owe everything to the army.
• Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but…
• But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.
• There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like…
• As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
• My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's…
• I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.
• At my age, the radiation will probably do me good.
• I do play drums when I'm on tour.
• I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.
• I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

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