Norman Wisdom Quotes

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can`t remember the other two.

I`ve done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I`m talking about.

Of course I`ve done musicals here in London.

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

I do play drums when I`m on tour.

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.

Well if I was going to describe my audience, it`s going to take longer than you`d ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there`s many of them, all over the world.

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.

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.

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

I owe everything to the army.

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

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

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

I was born in very sorry circumstances.

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