Quotes by Rory Bremner

About Rory Bremner:

Roderick "Rory" Keith Ogilvy Bremner is a Scottish impressionist and comedian, noted for his work in political satire and impressions of British public figures. He is also known for his work on Mock the Week as a panellist (for Series 1 and 2), award-winning show Rory Bremner...Who Else? and sketch comedy series Bremner, Bird and Fortune, which featured veteran comedians John Bird and John Fortune.
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In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

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I am more relaxed at home in Scotland, and my children are of an age where I want us, as a family, to spend more time up here.

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

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I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.

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I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling.

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

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

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If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

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

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A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.

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I am proud of Edinburgh's status as a financial centre, but where is it on the index of global financial centres? Sixty-fourth. Below Hamilton, Casablanca and Mauritius. London, by contrast, is second only to New York. That's a link worth keeping.

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I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it's entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you're a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.

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I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.

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I wish my father had lived longer. He died when I was 18.

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I don't have olive skin. Nobody could tell from my skin that I'm Mediterranean. I'm quite fair, and I do burn easily.

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

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

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

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Location is everything, I'd rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star hotel in Frankfurt.

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It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

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Author Bio

  • NameRory Bremner
  • DescriptionBritish comedian
  • BornApril 6, 1961
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionComedian