Eric Morecambe Quotations

I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.

Sometimes it worries me. I feel something's got to give. I know what Harry Secombe meant when he said he's worried that one day the phone will ring and a mystic voice will say, 'Thank you, Mr Secombe. Now can we have it all back?'

Ralph looked down at 10 pounds of extra him that wasn't there last Christmas. In five months he had put on all this weight.

It ran wild all right. Mind you, although we blushed every time we read the critics' columns, many viewers wrote to say they liked the shows.

I never saw him blow a sketch. But he was quite self-contained. It was hard to write collaboratively with him. You'd write a piece and he would change it to what he knew he could do brilliantly. He was modest, never ambitious or pushy, but he knew what he did well.

Before the end of 1960 we were asked to do a series. We did not want to rush things, so we waited until we felt fairly sure of the scripts.

I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

I get airsick just licking an airmail stamp.

I'm playing all the right notes, just not necessarily in the right order

I always take my wife morning tea in my pyjamas. But is she grateful? No, she says she'd rather have it in a cup.

I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.