Ronnie Barker quotes

“The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.”
-- Ronnie Barker

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.”
-- Ronnie Barker

Source : Sauce (1977) "Daddie's Sauce"

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“It's better to make people laugh than cry.”
-- Ronnie Barker

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“If I was as rich as Rockefeller I'd be richer than Rockefeller, because I'd do a bit of window cleaning on the side.”
-- Ronnie Barker

Source : Ronnie Barker (2013). “Fork Handles: The Bery Vest of Ronnie Barker”, p.127, Random House

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“To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, its the best job in the world.”
-- Ronnie Barker

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.”
-- Ronnie Barker

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male Choir is the best in choral singing. How then can they be described except in superlatives? They are without equal.”
-- Ronnie Barker

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“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”

“Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.”

“I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.”

“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.”

“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”

Source : Speech in London, 16 Dec. 1970, in The Times 17 Dec. 1970

“I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat. You just have them transferred someplace where they can't do you any harm. But don't ever talk to me about the honor of police captains or judges. If they couldn't be bought they wouldn't have the job.”

“Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.”

“If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.”

Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

“In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.”

“I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.”