Norman Wisdom Quotes

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

  Norman Wisdom

  Funny, Birthday, Memories

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• Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

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  Might, Firsts, Life Is

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

  Norman Wisdom

  Work, Lucky, Harder

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

  Norman Wisdom

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Norman Wisdom, William Hall (1992). “Don't laugh at me: an autobiography”, Vintage

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• 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.

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  Dog, Legs, Night Time

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• 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.

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  Children, Three, Needs

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

  Norman Wisdom

  Fall, Easier, Found

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

  Norman Wisdom

  Home, Tired, School

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

  Norman Wisdom

  Age, Radiation

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• 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.

  Norman Wisdom

  Hair, Shoes, Lines

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

  Norman Wisdom

  Nice, Laurels, Laurel And Hardy

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

  Norman Wisdom

  Ghouls, Ideas, Pieces

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• I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

  Norman Wisdom

  Music, Boys, Band

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• 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.

  Norman Wisdom

  Laughing, Communism, Reason

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• 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.

  Norman Wisdom

  Heart, Ideas, People

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• 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.

  Norman Wisdom

  Fun, Goes On, Crowds

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• I owe everything to the army.

  Norman Wisdom

  Army, Stewardship

  Norman Wisdom, William Hall (1992). “Don't laugh at me: an autobiography”, Vintage

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• All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.

  Norman Wisdom

  Boyhood, Wanted

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

  Norman Wisdom

  Army, Boys, Lucky

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• I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

  Norman Wisdom

  Play, Piano, Horny

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• I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.

  Norman Wisdom

  Simple, Long, Goes On

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• 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.

  Norman Wisdom

  Theatre, Facts, November

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• I do play drums when I'm on tour.

  Norman Wisdom

  Play

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• There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.

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  Fun, Mistake, Fall

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• I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.

  Norman Wisdom

  Childhood, Consistency, Fatherhood

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