Tony Hancock Quotes

#1. Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.

A.A. Gill

#2. It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've finished this, I shall recommend they ban it.

Tony Hancock

#3. We don't often take time to sit and meditate on what our lives would've been like if the mercy of the Redeemer had not been written into our personal stories.

Paul David Tripp

#4. As an adult, there are technical aspects of filmmaking you understand, like having to pick up a cup on the same line every time.

Brie Larson

#5. In many cases, women need to be more open to taking risks in their careers.2

Sheryl Sandberg

#6. I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

Eloisa James

#7. I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.

James Daly

#8. We try to ... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

Tony Hancock

#9. So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean.

Tony Hancock

#10. I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

Tony Hancock

#11. We look at distant exploding stars called supernovae, and we've developed techniques to measure how far away they are and how fast they're moving away from us.

Adam Riess

#12. It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

Tony Hancock

#13. And erm, perhaps looking like this it was perhaps the only thing I could do.

Tony Hancock

#14. This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#15. I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer
and I can tell you; each of these albums instantly became jazz classics. Hey, we had Wayne Shorter playing tenor sax, Ron [Carter] on bass, Tony Williams played drums. That was great band we had.

Herbie Hancock

#16. When the blind lead the blind, they all fall in the canal.

Tony Hancock

#17. He ended up on his own. I thought, he's got rid of everybody else, he's going to get rid of himself and he did." "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times.

Tony Hancock

#18. 'Breaking Bad' was a magical, amazing experience. I'm honored to have been a part of it.

Michelle MacLaren

#19. Stone me, what a life!

Tony Hancock

#20. Nobody will ever know I existed. Nothing to leave behind me. Nothing to pass on. Nobody to mourn me. That's the bitterest blow of all.

Tony Hancock

#21. [A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.

Rainer Maria Rilke