Notice: ob_end_flush(): Failed to delete and flush buffer. No buffer to delete or flush in /home1/ntptuqmy/public_html/quotes/includes/header_html.php on line 6
Rory Bremner Quotes - IQDb - Internet Quotes Database

Quotes from Rory Bremner


Sorted by Popularity


Politics in Scotland is far too important to be taken seriously.


Most Scots might be able to identify six vegetables - but only two MSPs. There are parts of Scotland where you rarely get more than 40% turnout at the polls. There's a big disconnect there, and I think comedians bridge that gap.


We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.


Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody.


One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K.


Anyone who wants to promote a car or a football tournament turns to opera. There's a much greater public connection than the image of plush corporate boxes would suggest.


When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.


To get to do a West End play is once in a lifetime chance.


Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.


Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.


For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities.


People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.


Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.


Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union.


It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.


In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.


In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.


If the oil runs out, we'll be reduced to fracking Alex Salmond.


I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.


I'd done an Edinburgh show before, in 1981, called 'The Importance of Being Varnished' - I was in the pun trade at the time.