BBC Quotes - page 4

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas. (Harry Melling)
I don't think the BBC supporting digital switchover is top slicing. Top slicing is putting the license fee up for grabs for other broadcasters to bid for. View quote
Jeremy Hunt
I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to get the compilation of his BBC radio pieces. I had to get everything he ever wrote. View quote
Jill Lepore
It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic. View quote
John Leeson
The BBC can be infuriating at times but I love it with a passion. View quote
John Sweeney
I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly. View quote
Jonathan Dimbleby
I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two. View quote
Jonathan Dimbleby
The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish. View quote
Jonathan Dimbleby
As soon as I got my proper first job, I never did acting again. I think the last thing I did was a Mike Figures film, and then I got a series with the BBC. I'm glad of the experience, because I think it's very, very good to understand what actors go through. View quote
Justin Chadwick
I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit. View quote
Louise Jameson
My fantasy is, if I wasn't on 'Dexter,' I would move my family to London and work for the BBC on 'Doctor Who.' (Manny Coto)
I was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called 'Top of the Lake,' that was shot by Jane Campion, who's a beautiful native New Zealander and famous film director. The role I was playing was very intense, and they shaved half my hair off. So, I looked like this post-apocalyptic character. View quote
Jay Ryan
When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep. View quote
Michael Apted
That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with. View quote
Michelle Forbes
BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into. View quote
Morley Safer
The BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful. View quote
Morley Safer
BBC Radio is not so much an art or industry as it is a way of life . . . a mirror that reflects . . . the eccentricities, the looniness that make Britons slightly different from other humans. View quote
Morley Safer
The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, occupying old churches and manor houses, the old Langham Hotel where Sherlock Holmes once met Moriarty and where this correspondent once shared an office with an 8-foot bathtub. View quote
Morley Safer
As the BBC approaches the final phase of decisions about its future, it will be important for those involved to be established in post and ready to take responsibility for implementation of the outcome. View quote
Pauline Neville-Jones
It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs. View quote
Richie Benaud
The trouble with climate change is it's an extraordinarily diverse and complex issue, but for example if the BBC would let me make some of the programmes I'd like to make on climate change, I bet you there would be a change of emphasis. (Robert Winston)
I started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite well, then started writing bits for other people's shows. You wheedle your way in, write pilots and eventually you end up writing a sitcom. View quote
Sharon Horgan
When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it. View quote
Simon Callow
The BBC is the greatest broadcaster in the world. It's the standard that everyone measures themselves against. If we lose the BBC, it won't be quite as bad as losing the royal family, but an integral part of this country will have gone. But then, I'm an old guy. View quote
Terry Wogan
I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it. View quote
Vince Clarke