60 Ripping Quotes By - David Jason | Status Free Download
60 Ripping Quotes By - David Jason |
60 Ripping Quotes By - David Jason | Instagram Status Free Download
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
Being an actor is like being a monk: you have got to be dedicated.
— David Jason
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
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
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
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
It's very nice to meet people who just get on, work hard, and don't have things handed to them.
— David Jason
While I'm hale and hearty, I've no thought in my mind to retire.
— David Jason
I have a yellow labrador, Tuffy, and a little rescue dog, Bella, who is the boss.
— David Jason
'House Of Cards' with Kevin Spacey - I love how it portrays humans in power as just like the rest of us - but even worse.
— David Jason
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
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
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
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
Comedy is a funny business, which you have to take seriously.
— David Jason
I needed to be an actor more than anything.
— David Jason
John Sullivan's scripts were always very funny, and cast and crew got on well.
— David Jason
I was a very shy sort of person, and by acting different characters, I could immerse myself and make them do what, perhaps, I wouldn't do.
— David Jason
I started at the Incognito Theatre as an amateur.
— David Jason
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
I can be intolerant.
— David Jason
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
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
I deliberately decided not to go on Twitter. I've read about how much stress it can cause. I don't think it's healthy.
— David Jason
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
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
If I want to go out to a restaurant with some friends, I'm more than happy that we go in under the radar, have a little evening on our own.
— David Jason
You can't make people enjoy what you're doing unless you're enjoying it yourself.
— David Jason
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
When I was a lad, my parents and all their equivalents never lusted after other people's riches or success.
— David Jason
My life has been in reverse. It wasn't fame, and it wasn't money, but I always wanted to succeed. The only way I could do that was to try with every job to be better than I was in the last one, and to learn.
— David Jason
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
I grew up in London, a city devastated by the bombing. I am, you might say, a Blitz Baby.
— David Jason
After leaving school, I worked as an electrician before becoming an actor.
— David Jason
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
I enjoy the work; I just don't like the glamour side of it. I find that very difficult to handle.
— David Jason
My father used to say, 'What the hell are you listening to? Put that bloody rubbish off.' And it was The Beatles.
— David Jason
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
My father, Arthur, was a fishmonger, first at Billingsgate market and later in Camden Town and Golders Green.
— David Jason
While I've got my health and fitness, I'm available... except for panto, of course. Too bloody much like hard work.
— David Jason
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
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
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
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
That's humour - doing what funny people have done since comedy began without being edgy and pushing boundaries.
— David Jason
Journalists are out to trap me with my underwear showing.
— David Jason
I was not driven by fame and fortune.
— David Jason
When I made my first decision, come hell or high water, that I would try to be a professional actor, I was burnt. Emotionally, I was burnt.
— David Jason
I shall act until I drop. I just want to keep doing it and making it fun.
— David Jason
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
I'm a qualified Professional Association of Diving Instructors Divemaster.
— David Jason
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
One of the things I learned was that I really enjoyed stunt-car driving.
— David Jason
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
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
I'm an actor, and so of course I want to see TV companies making good dramas. I want that to be a priority.
— David Jason
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
The ups and downs are part of what has made you.
— David Jason
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
When you're young, for God's sake, get out and try everything in terms of a career. Or go abroad, meet people.
— David Jason
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