Clive Anderson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of being blown away or rained on. And in the summer months you can be eaten alive by midges.”

“My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.”

“Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.”

“I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.”

“If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.”

“It is a bit frustrating. Things come and go in television. At the moment they've gone.”

“If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there's nowhere to move on to.”

“You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.”

“I try to make myself walk around a bit, but I probably think about it more than I actually do it. Years ago, I did think about joining a gym.”

“I'm pale-skinned so I don't feel at my best on a beach.”