Top 23 Quotes by Ben Elton

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.