I must admit I like to muck around a bit; I always have.

- Norman Wisdom

I have a folder where I keep all the articles the critics have written about me. It makes me feel good.

- Norman Wisdom

I owe everything to the army.

- Norman Wisdom

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

- Norman Wisdom

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

- Norman Wisdom

It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.

- Norman Wisdom

My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.

- Norman Wisdom

What I like doing most is making children laugh.

- Norman Wisdom

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.

- Norman Wisdom

I believe in physical comedy, because that reaches out most to people.

- Norman Wisdom

I do play drums when I'm on tour.

- Norman Wisdom

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

- Norman Wisdom

I've been making people laugh for 40 years, so I know how important it is!

- Norman Wisdom

It was smashing working with Jerry Desmonde, he was a very nice chap.

- Norman Wisdom

Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.

- Norman Wisdom

My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it.

- Norman Wisdom

Of course I've done musicals here in London.

- Norman Wisdom

When you're as famous as I am, stories take on a life of their own.

- Norman Wisdom

Don't get me wrong: I'm overjoyed with my career to date. But perhaps I could have done more. Mostly, I just did whatever the directors told me to do.

- Norman Wisdom

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.

- Norman Wisdom