"If I did things for the money, I'd……" — Ben Elton
"If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write."
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37 Quotes by Ben Elton
Ben Elton has 37 quotes on this site.
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Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word…
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I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get…
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You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even…
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People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little…
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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty…
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I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth…
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We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can…
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My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they…
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Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
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That best academy, a mother's knee.
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The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The…
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain…
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When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no…
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