Eric Morecambe Quotes

#1. The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

Dawn French

#2. It's sad when you see most of your friends in the business gone, like Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard, Eric Morecambe, Roy Castle, Les Dawson. They were very dear to me. You no longer have the chance to bump into them at a celebrity do.

Bruce Forsyth

#3. I never give anyone advice: it can backfire horribly. In the 1950s, Eric Morecambe told Ken Dodd to get his teeth fixed. But those teeth turned out to be one of Dodd's big selling points.

Paul Merton

#4. If what you want is to succeed, then lots of practice is what you need!

Terri Smith

#5. I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

Claude Monet

#6. I wanted a pseudonym partly because I'm quite shy and private. I know that sounds ludicrous, but if I should be lucky enough to make a hit, I wanted to be able to shrug off the mantel of Nick Harkaway when I got home.

Nick Harkaway

#7. Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

Eric Morecambe

#8. My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

Eric Morecambe

#9. I always take my wife morning tea in my pyjamas. But is she grateful? No, she says she'd rather have it in a cup.

Eric Morecambe

#10. We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.

Eric Morecambe

#11. I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

Eric Morecambe

#12. My eyes fell on the gray linoleum floor and I wondered how many other women had sat on this toilet and stared at this floor. Each of them the center of their own world, all of them yearning for someone to put their love into so they could see their love, see that they had it.

Miranda July

#13. I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.

Eric Morecambe

#14. We are our stories.

Barry Veret

#15. I get airsick just licking an airmail stamp.

Eric Morecambe