Norman Wisdom Quotes

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.

I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen.

It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.

Years ago, there was a variety theatre in every British town, and people paid to go down and see it. Comedy was the main part of the theatre, and comedians earned a living by being funny. Now you have comedy in television instead. Comedians now have to be funny within a play.

I do play drums when I'm on tour.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

I can never tell a joke, I've always found it easier to just fall over.

It was smashing working with Jerry Desmonde, he was a very nice chap.

I believe in physical comedy, because that reaches out most to people.

Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.

I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

What I like doing most is making children laugh.

Don't get me wrong: I'm overjoyed with my career to date. But perhaps I could have done more. Mostly, I just did whatever the directors told me to do.

At my age, the radiation will probably do me good.

I owe everything to the army.

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 done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about.

You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.

I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.

I have a folder where I keep all the articles the critics have written about me. It makes me feel good.

When you're as famous as I am, stories take on a life of their own.

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, in its place.

Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.

I must admit I like to muck around a bit; I always have.

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 their own ideas forward.

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 very sad.

I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12.