Ronnie Corbett

“Golf is the most fascinating game, but other people's game is the most boring thing.”

“All those I admired as a young performer had a calmness to their comedy.”

“We had a certain kind of material that was not dangerously esoteric.”

“I suppose to the outside world I do seem slightly obsessed. But I once had a balance problem with my inner ear, and the fear loitered. Yet I have found that golf is like a yoga procedure for...”

“Comedy taste changes. It only changes slightly, but there's always a different angle, a different attitude.”

“My first pet at home in Edinburgh was a dog my dad had called Glen. He was a small sheepdog and went with my dad every day to work as manager of a cooking centre, which made the children's l...”

“You get fed up watching shows with not much care and love, reality programmes where they put people in a house for a fortnight and film them doing everything, or where participants arrive af...”

“I used to have a theory in my mind that if no serious move had happened before I was 38 - not 40, oddly - then I would move into management or something. Fortunately, I was offered 'The Fros...”

“David Frost plucked me from the nightclubs.”

“I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.”

“I have had the most spoiled golfing life.”

“I just keep jogging along, and people seem to like me. And for that I am very grateful.”

“Our comedy was light-hearted amusement that seemingly tripped naturally off the tongue. That's why I don't think it will date.”

“Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.”

“We did Donald McGill, seaside-postcard stuff - middle of the road.”

“Part of my style was getting into a muddle. Audiences think that's part of the act. Sometimes it might be - but you have to guess which bits.”

“I have been trapped in some posh toilets, including those in Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, and at Victor Spinetti's memorial at St. Paul's Covent Garden, I got locked in the loo.”

“It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.”

“It is all down to 'The Two Ronnies.' Those years with Ronnie Barker were the spine of my career.”

“I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.”