Quotes by David Jason - Page 2

Working on 'Open All Hours' had some unexpected perks, not least the attractions of the canteen at the BBC's rehearsal studios in West London.
David Jason / Actor
Hours
London
Perks
Rehearsal
Studios
Unexpected
West
Attractions
Bbc
Open
Least
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I always wanted to fly. When I was in theatre, I used to go up on Dunstable Downs on my day off to watch the gliders, to get away from it all.
David Jason / Actor
Downs
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I am thrilled to be taking part in 'Hogfather.' I am a huge fan of Terry Pratchett's books, and to play the part of Albert is going to be great fun.
David Jason / Actor
Albert
Great Fun
Huge Fan
Terry
Thrilled
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How do I feel about being called a national treasure? I think it's marvellous if that's people's opinion. But I'd rather have the money than the label.
David Jason / Actor
Marvellous
Opinion
Treasure
Money People Feel
Label
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On 'EastEnders' everyone's bitter, angry. Where are the wonderful characters that I lived with, who could find humour even in the lowest form of living?
David Jason / Actor
Angry
Bitter
Humour
Lowest
Wonderful
Lowest Form
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A couple of years ago, I bought my own helicopter, a Robinson R44. I use it occasionally to fly myself to sets where I am filming or to business meetings.
David Jason / Actor
Filming
Couple Of Years Ago
Helicopter
Occasionally
Robinson
Sets
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I've been approached to do reality shows, but even though the fees are very, very attractive, I always say no because money should never be your motivation.
David Jason / Actor
Attractive
Fees
Reality Shows
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Don't get me started on BBC salaries. We were never the big league. Situation comedy has always been the poor relation in the television entertainment business.
David Jason / Actor
Entertainment Business
League
Relation
Business Always Me
Bbc
Salaries
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My mum, Olwen, was a bright and talkative woman who loved a gossip and a story and was given slightly to malapropisms. And she was Welsh, so, of course, she sang.
David Jason / Actor
Given
Gossip
Mum
Talkative
Welsh
Bright
Loved
Woman
Course
Sang
She
Slightly
Story
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I would like 'Frost' to go on forever, but you don't want people in the press hammering you, saying you've outstayed your welcome or that it's not believable anymore.
David Jason / Actor
Believable
Frost
Welcome
Hammering
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Good parts just don't fall off trees. I try to be very careful about what sort of projects I attack. There's an audience out there that expects high standards from me.
David Jason / Actor
Audience
Careful
Fall
High Standards
Projects
Standards
Attack
Expects
Good Parts
Parts
Trees
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I never thought I was academically gifted at school. But when I started flying, I found you didn't need an academic mind - you just needed determination and dedication.
David Jason / Actor
Academic
Dedication
Determination
Flying
Gifted
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The Christmas of 1965 was a Yuletide with a difference at my parents' tiny terrace house in North London: it was the first time my family had been able to see me on television.
David Jason / Actor
Terrace
Tiny
Family Time Christmas
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I'm really excited to be bringing back 'Open All Hours.' I am sure there is an audience out there who would like to see what Granville has been getting up to in the corner shop.
David Jason / Actor
Corner
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I suppose that I just grew up knowing, in a very vivid way, that if it hadn't been for the men who fought in the Second World War, we'd all be living in a very different world now.
David Jason / Actor
Second World War
Vivid
War Men World
Different World
Fought
Suppose
World War
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I think 'Mrs. Brown's Boys' in particular is very good, though I do find that perhaps the language is a bit strong for a family, but it is very popular, and I think it's very funny.
David Jason / Actor
Funny Family Good
Mrs
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I enjoy life so much I don't want it to end, and dying does worry me. If you've got faith, you believe that you're going to go to a magic land, but unfortunately, I don't have faith.
David Jason / Actor
Faith
Dying
Enjoy
Enjoy Life
Magic
Worry
Life Faith Believe
Much
Does
Unfortunately
Got
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We were taught fortitude by our parents, who had gone through the war. Being a child then was fun. We could go out and play in the street - there were few cars - and we felt very safe.
David Jason / Actor
Fortitude
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It seems to me that as soon as politicians get in, they become part of this club, and the rest of us, beneath them, are just ants running about. They become besotted with their position.
David Jason / Actor
Ants
Beneath
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When you see the kids on 'Britain's Got Talent' or 'The X Factor' who just want to be famous at all costs, you just go, 'God, these people just don't know what it is they're asking for.'
David Jason / Actor
Famous
Britain
Talent
Factor
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A lot of TV has moved away from family viewing. But with 'The Royal Bodyguard,' we have tried to make a show when no one will be worried about sitting there with their kids or their grandma.
David Jason / Actor
Bodyguard
Grandma
Moved
Royal
Sitting
Worried
Tried
Viewing
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You wouldn't want me to play Frost in a wheelchair, would you? 'Frost' is getting a little long in the tooth. I still enjoy doing it, and it's a great part, but I just think he's got to retire.
David Jason / Actor
Frost
Great Me Long
Great Long Me
Great Part
Tooth
Wheelchair
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Driving a Model T Ford was extremely difficult. The pedals are reversed from the way they are now. It's so crude, but that was the motorcar that started it all. It's an incredible part of history.
David Jason / Actor
Crude
Ford
Reversed
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We seem to have lost our British sense of humour. It's a great shame. We have to be so careful nowadays; we have lost a lot of humour because people are too frightened of getting too near touchy subjects.
David Jason / Actor
British
Careful
Frightened
Humour
Subjects
Touchy
Great Lost People
Near
Nowadays
Seem
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I was very shy and had low self-esteem; the only way to stop yourself getting beaten up was to turn your hand to being an idiot. At the beginning, it was survival, and after that, it became second nature.
David Jason / Actor
Beaten
Low Self Esteem
Self Esteem
Shy
Survival
Nature Yourself Your
Beginning
Low
Second Nature
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I've been lucky enough to do this fantastic job now for more than 50 years. To make people laugh, to entertain, create a wide range of emotions - it has always been a tremendous thrill for me, and it still is.
David Jason / Actor
Range
Thrill
Wide
Me People Laugh
Tremendous
Enough Always Me
Entertain
Wide Range
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I do recognise I have a responsibility to the audience. They feel fairly confident that if I'm in something, they can sit down with their family and be entertained by it. I don't desperately want to change that.
David Jason / Actor
Recognise
Fairly
Desperately
Entertained
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For me, the making of a documentary to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain was an intensely personal journey. I was born in February 1940, so I was just six months old as the battle raged overhead.
David Jason / Actor
Anniversary
Battle
February
Mark
Overhead
Documentary
Intensely
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Missing out on 'Monty Python' was a real blow at the time. I sometimes wonder how things would have been different if I had been invited to join 'Monty Python,' but as the saying goes, one door closes, another opens.
David Jason / Actor
Blow
Invited
Missing
Monty
Python
Wonder
Closes
Door
Join
Monty Python
Opens
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When you had just three and then four channels, I could always find something that was watchable because the standard of TV was much higher. In those days, they had so much more money to put into so many less programmes.
David Jason / Actor
Programmes
Channels
Standard
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I don't think I would ever have taken on professional acting roles if I hadn't had the ability to fly. I had quite low self-esteem, and it gave me the self-confidence to believe I could do anything that I put my mind to.
David Jason / Actor
Low Self Esteem
Self Esteem
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I've met a lot of military men in my time. After they retire, they are still extremely game. They dress perfectly and have impeccable manners. They always end up as secretaries of golf clubs. I have great admiration for them.
David Jason / Actor
Admiration
Clubs
Golf
Impeccable
Manners
Military
My Time
Time Men Great
Retire
Extremely
Met
Perfectly
Secretaries
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I was 25 when I'd told my parents that I was giving up steady work as an electrician to become an actor. They couldn't have been less enthusiastic if I'd proposed starting a commercial newt-breeding operation in the bathroom.
David Jason / Actor
Bathroom
Electrician
Enthusiastic
Giving Up
Steady
Operation
Proposed
Steady Work
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I don't watch 'The X Factor' any more. Why do I want to see someone say the same old thing - it's all they've ever dreamed about - then lose and burst into tears and go into neurosis? They just want to be famous - it doesn't matter how.
David Jason / Actor
Famous
Neurosis
Tears
Burst
Dreamed
Factor
Old Thing
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I'm a twin, but only I emerged live from the womb. The fact that I was originally one half of a duo gave rise to a theory, much propounded in newspaper profiles, that my life has been one desperate effort to compensate for that stillborn brother.
David Jason / Actor
Brother
Desperate
Effort
Half
One Half
Theory
Womb
Rise
Life Live My Life
Compensate
Twin
Duo
Emerged
Gave
Profiles
Newspaper
Originally
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We get the impression through film and TV that Americans are violent gangsters with guns or upper-middle-class people in romcoms. I really liked the people. They were really warm. They could have been Brits. I mean that in the nicest possible way.
David Jason / Actor
Brits
Gangsters
Impression
Warm
People Way Possible
Guns
Liked
Nicest
Film And Tv
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What intrigues me is that there are funny people in the real East End. It's famous for it. There'd be blokes dressing up as women as a lark, but 'EastEnders' seems blind to the fact that they enjoy a laugh. There should be a cheery chappy on there.
David Jason / Actor
Famous
Blind
East
Funny People
Dressing
Intrigues
Lark
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I have no interest in Twitter or Twotter or Twatter. It would never occur to me to use it. People who Tweet during programmes are always asking, 'What happened then?' If you're bloody Twittering away all the time, you miss what is actually going on.
David Jason / Actor
Bloody
Programmes
Tweet
Time Me People
Twitter
Actually
Away
Miss
No Interest
Occur
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Miley Cyrus epitomises what we have allowed. She has done it to break the mould. I can understand why, but we have given her the oxygen of publicity and encouraged it, so young girls will think it is the right way to attract men. We've lost our standards.
David Jason / Actor
Break
Lost
Mould
Oxygen
Publicity
Right Way
Standards
Allowed
Attract
Encouraged
Young Girls
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A show like the 'Only Fool and Horses' Christmas special got 24 million viewers, so practically everyone in the country was watching. But of course it's a different world now, with so many channels. And those kind of figures are really difficult to achieve.
David Jason / Actor
Christmas
Achieve
Figures
Fool
Viewers
Channels
Different World
Practically
Horses
Million
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My parents, Arthur and Olwen, were honest, working-class people who raised my brother Arthur, sister June, and me with the values of that era - patriotism, stoicism, honesty, concern for your neighbours, and judging a man by what he did rather than what he had.
David Jason / Actor
Sister
Patriotism
Arthur
Brother
Concern
Honest
Judging
Raised
Stoicism
Working Class
Did
Era
Parents
Neighbours
Rather
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We have more and more rules coming out of Europe telling us what to do, and I think people are getting a bit fed up with it. This was supposed to be a common market. I don't remember them ever saying we would be governed by Brussels and become a satellite of Europe.
David Jason / Actor
Brussels
Fed Up
Rules
Fed
Governed
Market
More And More
Satellite
Supposed
Telling
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There are certain values that, in my opinion, television has lost - various moral lines. How far you go in, say, revealing what people get up to on reality TV, and also graphic violence and swearing - the taboo of various swear-words is no longer there. It's worrying.
David Jason / Actor
Graphic
Lines
Moral
Opinion
Reality Tv
Revealing
Swearing
Taboo
Television
Violence
How Far
In My Opinion
Longer
Worrying
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The first series of 'Open All Hours' came and went without much fanfare because the BBC, in its almighty wisdom, put it out on BBC2, reasoning that it was 'a gentle comedy', better suited to the calms of the second channel than to the noisier, choppier waters of the first.
David Jason / Actor
Wisdom
Almighty
Comedy
Fanfare
Gentle
Hours
Reasoning
Series
Bbc
Calms
Channel
Suited
Waters
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In 1977, while I was performing in a play in Cardiff, a friend introduced me to a striking redhead called Myfanwy Talog, famed for her appearances on Welsh television with the comedy duo Rees and Ronnie. We were instantly smitten and eventually moved in together, sharing 18 happy years.
David Jason / Actor
Comedy
Moved
Performing
Smitten
Television
Welsh
Appearances
Friend
Duo
Instantly
Introduced
Redhead
Ronnie
Sharing
Striking
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While scuba diving off the British Virgin Islands about 25 years ago, our boat's anchor got stuck. I dived down to release it, but I got separated from the boat and was stranded as it sped away. I had to swim for an hour to the nearest island with all my scuba kit on before I was rescued.
David Jason / Actor
Boat
British
Diving
Release
Scuba
Stranded
Stuck
Swim
Years Ago
Anchor
Island
Hour
Nearest
Rescued
Separated
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I'm getting fed up of living away from home so much. They look after you very well but it doesn't matter how well you're looked after, how nice the hotel is, if you're away from home constantly, the bloody dog savages you, thinks you're a stranger, the kid cries and the wife's stuck to your face!
David Jason / Actor
Home
Dog
Nice
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It has taken a lot of persuasion for me to take part in an official documentary about 'Only Fools and Horses.' But, as time has gone on, it seems to have been imprinted in television history, and I thought it was only right that I tried to give an accurate insight into how the show was put together.
David Jason / Actor
History
Accurate
Insight
Persuasion
Seems
Taken
Television
Together
Time History Me
Time Together Me
Time History Together
Show
Documentary
Fools
Horses
Imprinted
Official
Tried
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Congratulations to all the members of the wonderful Treorchy Male Choir past and present. In moments of grief or joy, the sound of the Choir can move and uplift and restore spirits like no other sound. Masters of their craft, each and every singer plays a vital role in helping maintain such a fantastic musical tradition. Long may the Choir prosper and continue to the delight of audiences around the world.
David Jason / Actor
Uplifting
Congratulations
Grief
Moving
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