Ronnie Corbett quote: "I have been trapped in some posh toilets, including those in Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, and at Victor Spinetti's memorial at St. Paul's Covent Garden, I got locked in the loo."

All those I admired as a young performer had a calmness to their comedy.
RONNIE CORBETT

Golf is the most fascinating game, but other people's game is the most boring thing.
RONNIE CORBETT

I just keep jogging along, and people seem to like me. And for that I am very grateful.
RONNIE CORBETT

I suppose to the outside world I do seem slightly obsessed. But I once had a balance problem with my...
RONNIE CORBETT

Comedy taste changes. It only changes slightly, but there's always a different angle, a differen...
RONNIE CORBETT

I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety a...
RONNIE CORBETT

You get fed up watching shows with not much care and love, reality programmes where they put people ...
RONNIE CORBETT

I have had the most spoiled golfing life.
RONNIE CORBETT

We did Donald McGill, seaside-postcard stuff - middle of the road.
RONNIE CORBETT

Our comedy was light-hearted amusement that seemingly tripped naturally off the tongue. That's w...
RONNIE CORBETT

A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the loo...
RONNIE CORBETT

Part of my style was getting into a muddle. Audiences think that's part of the act. Sometimes it...
RONNIE CORBETT

Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you i...
RONNIE CORBETT

We found a completely new audience.
RONNIE CORBETT

Ronnie was pure gold in triplicate - as a performer, a writer and a friend.
RONNIE CORBETT

It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.
RONNIE CORBETT

David Frost plucked me from the nightclubs.
RONNIE CORBETT

I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any da...
RONNIE CORBETT

I love radio and have done a little bit for years - since 'Workers' Playtime' in the 195...
RONNIE CORBETT

In the old days, if you topped the bill one evening, you'd do 22 minutes maximum, and if you ove...
RONNIE CORBETT

By comparison, this is much like an internal affairs (IA) division within a local police department.
BRIAN CORBETT

Funding is our first hurdle.
BRIAN CORBETT

If you have three nonviolent crimes, you could still get the same sentence as someone who has commit...
BRIAN CORBETT

Certainly we hope to use this 500 to address the number of inmates in county jails over the 30-day l...
BRIAN CORBETT

We are targeting larger vehicles initially in our hybrid strategy because that's where we can get th...
BRIAN CORBETT

Just consider the image the auto industry, and particularly Detroit, has on a national basis. We can...
BRIAN CORBETT

At one point we were 6-6 and didn't look like we were going to do much this year. But the girls got ...
BRANDY CORBETT

We didn't have anyone who match up with her one-on-one. Her size got us in foul trouble and just wor...
BRANDY CORBETT

On any given night, we have a different person step up. They have all exceeded my expectations.
BRANDY CORBETT

We knew she'd be good, but we didn't know if she'd be ready to play at this level yet. She has prove...
BRANDY CORBETT

We hope our defensive pressure is as productive as it's been the last two games. We've scored a lot ...
BRANDY CORBETT

She's a good shooter from the outside. We can't focus all of our efforts on the two post players.
BRANDY CORBETT

They most certainly have a size advantage on us. Their guards are not very tall, but they are tough ...
BRANDY CORBETT

It was hands down our best performance of the year. (St. Francis) had three really good athletes wit...
BRANDY CORBETT

She's just a great player. We had three different players guard her and the girls did a great job ho...
BRANDY CORBETT

We are going to have to handle their pressure. They are very athletic. We simply can't commit any tu...
BRANDY CORBETT

Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-bud...
JOHN CORBETT

There are no pure, pure climber's stages, no 10-mile, 14-percent brutes. And there are no bone-flat ...
JEFF CORBETT

We played hard, we came to compete, and it's nice to start the season with a win.
MYRON CORBETT

I think we tried. Nothing ventured and nothing gained.
JOHN CORBETT

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful...
JOHN CORBETT

I don't expect any kind of charges,
JOHN CORBETT

The new branch office will be completed by the end of this month or early next month. This has been ...
JOHN CORBETT

We recorded over a dozen songs we had just learned the day before. I knew before I went in to record...
JOHN CORBETT

I hung out at Uncle Phil's Club Madrid nightspot where my mother was a waitress and my grandmother s...
JOHN CORBETT

I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior colle...
JOHN CORBETT

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six pl...
JOHN CORBETT

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being succ...
JOHN CORBETT

Gap is a quality team. Right now, they're playing as well as anybody. We're going to need another st...
JOHN CORBETT

I'm not done with acting forever. I'm very grateful for what my acting has brought me. But you only ...
JOHN CORBETT

I know people came out to see how bad we were. Then we win them over, and they stick around.
JOHN CORBETT

I'm not sure. I like to have funny answers for that or avoid the question but I'm tired of trying to...
JOHN CORBETT

Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors w...
JOHN CORBETT

That?s the kind of player that he is. He?s just a junior, and I?m glad he?s going to be back next ye...
JOHN CORBETT

(But) I think I'm a better singer and guitar player than actor.
JOHN CORBETT

Tigers, except when wounded or when man-eaters, are on the whole very good-tempered...Occassionally ...
JIM CORBETT

I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a...
JOHN CORBETT

Unfortunately, everybody gets beat in the last game except the state champion. When we started out t...
DALE CORBETT

We depended on Diana a lot in terms of settling the team down in the fourth quarter. After the first...
MYRON CORBETT

I challenged Angelina during the third quarter. She went out and put up some big numbers in the seco...
MYRON CORBETT

Hundreds of false rumors of alleged attacks by the man-eater were brought to us, entailing endless m...
JIM CORBETT

No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital be...
MIKE CORBETT

Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gu...
MIKE CORBETT

There is a sort of mental treason
That smothers dreams outside of reason
MIKE CORBETT

There's high-tech home security systems where if you're away, you could watch your home from your ca...
BILL CORBETT

A lot of this stuff is not even on the market yet.
BILL CORBETT

This deceptive or perceived scare tactic method to renew a magazine is at best unfair and at worst i...
TOM CORBETT

It was a good year. As far as truly getting upset, we stayed away from that until (losing to Westerv...
DALE CORBETT

Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice
JIM CORBETT

This was a hard game; it was hard fought. We played through bad calls and missed shots. They played ...
MYRON CORBETT

Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.
JOHN CORBETT

Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing acto...
JOHN CORBETT

If you take cyclists, runners, cross-country skiers, swimmers and all kinds of endurance athletes ac...
JEFF CORBETT

If you're going to have the baby on the first or second of January - shoot, it's going to hurt you.
DON CORBETT

We've been having this annual convention on the last weekend of February since 1971. Our date has be...
DON CORBETT

Activities have all been a hit in the past. Depending on the weather, it could be a nice, enjoyable ...
CHRIS CORBETT

I think he'll be in the mix.
JEFF CORBETT

I had spent many nights in the jungle looking for game, but this was the first time I had ever spent...
JIM CORBETT

You can't pick the night you're going to play bad. I give a lot of credit to Westerville (Central), ...
DALE CORBETT

A lot of these teams I haven't seen in a while.
DALE CORBETT

We have some guards coming back. We have some decent people.
DALE CORBETT

This is a special group. Every big game we won we were so happy for them. Right now, I don't feel ba...
DALE CORBETT

Oh, (the pressure is) on us, we can't afford to lose again (in the league). (Central is) two games u...
DALE CORBETT

You become a champion by fighting one more round.
JAMES CORBETT

What may be unconscionable to one judge may not be unconscionable to another judge,
TOM CORBETT

Interest in the hospital has grown in the community. They are proud of the hospital and see a bright...
CLIFF CORBETT

We have spent more money in the last five years upgrading and expanding services than we have in the...
CLIFF CORBETT

Our failure to bag the man-eater up to that date was not due to our having done anything we should n...
JIM CORBETT

He's a very experienced swimmer. He's been swimming for years, so he is really strong and was able t...
LISA CORBETT

We always put a lot of pressure on ourselves; I mean we never go into a race looking to [do] anythin...
JEFF CORBETT

Radio is changing dramatically. This feels like the loss of a friend that you knew you could always ...
JEFF CORBETT

It makes good business sense, but I don't like it. Those stations were the cornerstone of this commu...
JEFF CORBETT

Though we are more of a sprinting team, we have sprinters who can get over the hills. I figure the w...
JEFF CORBETT

There are 10-20 names that have the fitness to win the race, and Chris would have to be one of them....
JEFF CORBETT

Every one of the (16) teams is stacked with talent. The teams that take the race seriously -- those ...
JEFF CORBETT

The guys who want to be successful in the summer can't be flying in February. The riders whose minds...
JEFF CORBETT

There is no real plan. We're more concerned with winning the race. This race is too difficult to say...
JEFF CORBETT

We have to stay true to the universe of Halo and create something that will be an experience on your...
JULIAN CORBETT

Being selected as the mobile partner and entrusted with the Halo universe is a huge honor... Ultimat...
JULIAN CORBETT

This partnership is first and foremost a creative one focused on delivering mobile applications true...
JULIAN CORBETT

(Peters) is, without a doubt, a hero in the eyes of my family.
PATRICK CORBETT

You come to the point when you know it's time to consider some other things.
PATRICK CORBETT

We're all here and healthy, but we've had our lineup together only one time. That keeps us from putt...
RAY CORBETT

Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not ...
WILLIAM CORBETT

I think the best way to define the season is it's wide open for a lot of teams.
WILLY CORBETT

As for my state of Mississippi, our governor, Phil Bryant, said the state could not afford the match...
RONNIE MUSGROVE

I feel like I am campaigning door to door. You just can't step out of a band like Brooks & D...
RONNIE DUNN

I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan...
RONNIE WOOD

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.
RONNIE MILSAP

I was freaking out when Brooks & Dunn were breaking up. I thought 'We play a ton of rodeos, ...
RONNIE DUNN

The probability of meeting someone you know increases a hundredfold when you're with someone you're ...
RONNIE SHAKES

I don't need a psychiatrist to prod into my personal life and make me tell them all my secrets, I ha...
RONNIE SHAKES

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.
RONNIE SHAKES

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
RONNIE LOTT

I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say.
RONNIE SHAKES

To be honest, we donate to projects that we think are meaningful. How society views it or how we are...
RONNIE CHAN

It does not matter how much we donate; it matters whether the donation is meaningful. How to define ...
RONNIE CHAN

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.
RONNIE BARKER

When companies are trying to find a state to locate a new business or factory, they look at a number...
RONNIE MUSGROVE

We do things on an exchange basis in the music business - it keeps the wheels turning. That's ho...
RONNIE WOOD

Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.
RONNIE O'SULLIVAN

But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunati...
RONNIE BARKER

My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground...
RONNIE DUNN

We had hoped to have been bringing you Arthur the Human Chameleon, but this afternoon, he crawled ac...
RONNIE BARKER

I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bi...
RONNIE WOOD

The issue of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals has vexed politicia...
RONNIE MUSGROVE

I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez...
RONNIE WOOD

Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the ...
RONNIE MUSGROVE

Next week we'll be investigating rumours that the president of the dairy council has become a Ma...
RONNIE BARKER

I had prostate cancer that, for me, was debilitating. I didn't touch a guitar for two years, but...
RONNIE MONTROSE

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.
RONNIE COLEMAN

If you donate to the mainland, it's not as simple as giving money. You need a lot of psychologic...
RONNIE CHAN

We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually chall...
RONNIE HAWKINS

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.
RONNIE BARKER

I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help r...
RONNIE WOOD

You need strong leadership to effectuate change, and the easiest way is to keep everything status qu...
RONNIE CHAN

My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.
RONNIE SHAKES

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good ...
RONNIE SHAKES

I like life. It's something to do.
RONNIE SHAKES

After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said,...
RONNIE SHAKES

I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What the hell goo...
RONNIE SHAKES

We are committed to taking the culprits to task.
RONNIE MAMBA

I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.
RONNIE WOOD

It's good fun, making a solo album, because there's perhaps songs that wouldn't get used...
RONNIE WOOD

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion. And as I have gotten older, I came...
RONNIE MUSGROVE

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think ...
RONNIE DUNN

Gamma was a logical progression after doing the Open Fire record.
RONNIE MONTROSE

Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Brita...
RONNIE BARKER

We're at our best when Keith and Mick (are/aren't) getting along, ... As songwriters, they seem to b...
RONNIE WOOD

He's tighter than two coats of paint.
RONNIE WOOD

The only exercise Keith does is lifting the bottle to the mouth.
RONNIE WOOD

Mary was superb. But we missed a lot of shots that we've got to make. That's been a problem for us i...
RONNIE BOND

All my life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend.
RONNIE WOOD

I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of ...
RONNIE DUNN

The most important thing, the biggest love of my life, is my snooker. I've never been so emotion...
RONNIE O'SULLIVAN

Barker was a great writer, a great actor and a great loss to us all. I think God must have needed ch...
RONNIE BARKER

We have decided that this offence is too serious for a community sentence. You will be sent to a you...
RONNIE BARKER

The man who invented the zip fastener was today honoured with a lifetime peerage. He'll now be known...
RONNIE BARKER

... And it's goodnight from him.
RONNIE BARKER

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's t...
RONNIE BARKER

I mean, Janet Jackson? She's like Michael Jackson with hair.
RONNIE SPECTOR

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pr...
RONNIE MONTROSE

My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open...
RONNIE DUNN

They were flown from the Seychelles to London.
RONNIE MAMOEPA

No, it sounds familiar,
RONNIE BROWN

I missed two games, but from the standpoint of being behind, we have a new game plan for this week,
RONNIE BROWN

I think we've seen a few glimpses of that with Ricky and myself both being in the backfield at the s...
RONNIE BROWN

[While he gets his bearings, he's still living in a hotel, although he's found a place in the Fort L...
RONNIE BROWN

You see a lot of people going around trying to do as much possible, but I think at this point you re...
RONNIE BROWN

Especially against a defense like that, it feels great,
RONNIE BROWN

[Brown said he and Cadillac, the No. 5 pick by Tampa Bay, have kept in touch about their parallel ex...
RONNIE BROWN

I tried to loosen it up in the dugout. But I knew I blew it out.
RONNIE BELLIARD

When companies are trying to find a state to locate a new business or factory, they look at a number...
RONNIE MUSGROVE

Married life is absolutely brilliant.
RONNIE WOOD

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of moder...
RONNIE WOOD

Granados was tough and strong but couldn't cope with Dixon's speed and movement. It was a cracking d...
RONNIE ROWE

I love the 'Delilah' show. I've been listening to it for years and years. It's incre...
RONNIE MILSAP

All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be...
RONNIE WOOD

Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying ...
RONNIE LOTT

If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?
RONNIE VANZANT

I am a cross between Carl Perkins and Led Zeppelin.
RONNIE HAWKINS

In the long-term, these people are going to be out of work like we've seen our people out of work,
RONNIE HAWKINS

They should never have to hire anybody from outside for big jobs in Canada. It's weird thinking, ......
RONNIE HAWKINS

I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs...
RONNIE HAWKINS

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
RONNIE HAWKINS

It's Saturday night. Let's get drunk.
RONNIE HAWKINS

Marriage is like a phonograph record. You get what you like on one side and take what you get on the...
RONNIE JOHNSON

Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing fo...
RONNIE HAWKINS

A great epiphany: I found out that I'm totally confused and I'm good with that. I'm cons...
RONNIE DUNN

Conservatives are telling elected leaders that expansion of Medicaid comes at a moral - or more over...
RONNIE MUSGROVE

We haven't seen the win column in a while. I was disappointed with our mental approach for this game...
RONNIE ELMORE

A true friend does not take over and a true friend never tells you to lead you do it together.
RONNIE HAIK

Love is a gift from god and you shall charish it your whole life time.
RONNIE HAIK

You Can't Spell 'Star' Without A&R.
RONNIE VANNUCCI

Normally, you see prices tend to go backwards in a drought with exceeding amounts of cattle hitting ...
RONNIE BECK

I wanted to live in Nashville. I wanted to sing country.
RONNIE MILSAP

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.
RONNIE O'SULLIVAN

I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.
RONNIE SPECTOR

I'm more lost when I'm not on tour. I'm in a bit of a muddle at nine o'clock - '...
RONNIE WOOD

I have been trapped in some posh toilets, including those in Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, and at Victor Spinetti's memorial at St. Paul's Covent Garden, I got locked in the loo.

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I have been trapped in some posh toilets, including those in Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, and at Victor Spinetti's memorial at St. Paul's Covent Garden, I got locked in the loo.

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