Dick Clement quotes

“Class has always been a staple of British comedy. We've always been able to laugh at it. When British shows are translated to America, the absence of the equivalent class structure there often causes them to fail. But over here we've always got comic mileage out of it.”
-- Dick Clement

Source : Source: www.comedy.co.uk

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“I'm full of admiration for the Queen. She's done a fantastic job. She has had an awful lot of blocks along the road and has overcome them all. I'm anything but an antimonarchist.”
-- Dick Clement

Source : Source: www.comedy.co.uk

#Block Quotes #Done Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“I have never in any way found the idea of celebrity appealing. Anonymity is much more appealing.”
-- Dick Clement

Source : Source: www.comedy.co.uk

#Anonymity Quotes

“That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.”

Source : "The Big Picture: An American Commentary". Book by A. Whitney Brown, 1991.

“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.”

“At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.”

Source : "Mindy’s Pally". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2014.

“I'd like to do a romantic comedy.”

“Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.”

“One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.”

“Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.”

Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

“I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.”

“Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.”

“I have a rendezvous with death... I will not fail that rendezvous”