“I always say to young people, you can have the best script, be the funniest man, but if they don't laugh — you're not a comedian.”
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“[To Jimmy Edwards] Don't forget we are talking to rebels.”
Eric Sykes
“If you understand comedy, you understand life. Drama, death, tragedy – everybody has these. But with humour you've got all these, and the antidote. You have found the answer. It doesn't follow that be...”
Eric Sykes
“My theory is that we are all idiots. The people who don’t think they’re idiots — they’re the ones that are dangerous.”
Eric Sykes
“I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said "I'll just print another ten.”
Eric Sykes