BBC Quotes - page 2

The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better. (Ewan McGregor)
Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. View quote
David Attenborough
It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it. View quote
David Attenborough
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music. View quote
Keith Richards
My vocal cords are made of tweed. I give off an air of Oxford donnishness and old BBC wirelesses. View quote
Stephen Fry
I had always had grave doubts about Eliot's taste and, indeed, intelligence. [T. S. Eliot Memorial Lecture, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, 1980]. View quote
Anthony Burgess
Where are you from? [The reporter responds that he is from the BBC] Here's another beauty. View quote
Donald Trump
I love the BBC, it's a gorgeous organisation and it's just 'cos it's got vaguely socialist state-run tendencies that people like bloody old Rupert Murdoch coat it off in the Sun, and it's gotta stop! View quote
Russell Brand
Absolutely none. But rather more than the BBC do. We could have had this interview in England a couple of years ago, although I wouldn't have met with such hatred that I'm getting from your questions, and frankly I've had enough of this interview. Goodbye. View quote
Nigel Farage
John Pienaar (BBC reporter): Which do you regret more, singing in the bath when forced to withdraw from the ERM, or talking prematurely of green shoots last autumn? Norman Lamont: I.. Je ne regrette rien. View quote
Norman Lamont
They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses. (Abu Bakar Bashir)
The word 'conservative' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naïve, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties. View quote
Norman Tebbit
‘You're frightfully BBC in your language this afternoon, Albert,' said Tuppance, with some exasperation. Albert looked slightly taken aback and reverted to a more natural form of speech. ‘I was listening to a very interesting talk on pond life last night,' he explained. View quote
Agatha Christie
It's tough and it should be tough - it should never be easy to be given millions of pounds to make a drama. The coalition government is doing terrible things to the BBC, but drama will survive even if we end up putting on a play in a backroom of a pub. View quote
Russell T Davies
Hands off the BBC. View quote
Dennis Skinner
Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you. View quote
Eddie Mair
Look, there are senior executives from our television company Russia Today sitting across from me. What is happening in some countries where they operate? They are being banned. What does this mean? It means those who do so are afraid of the competition... Someone is making it hard for them. That means we are winning.... We do not have global media like CNN, Fox News, BBC and so on... We have just one fairly modest channel. Even if it causes so much heartburn and fear of it being able to influence minds, then we are winning this competition... View quote
Vladimir Putin
I am against the monopoly enjoyed by the BBC. For eleven years they kept me off the air. They prevented me from expressing views which have proved to be right. Their behaviour has been tyrannical. They are honeycombed with Socialists-probably with Communists. View quote
Winston Churchill
After September 11th I had tons of interviews everywhere, except the United States of course, and often it was national radio and TV. A couple of times it turned out to be Irish television and BBC back to back, and the difference in reaction was startling. If I said this much on Irish TV, OK, discussion over, everyone understands what I'm talking about. You try to say it on BBC, you have to go on for like about an hour to explain to them what you mean. The Irish sea is a chasm, and it just depends who's been holding the whip for 800 years and who's been under it for 800 years. View quote
Noam Chomsky
I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically. View quote
Alexei Sayle
The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken. (P. J. O'Rourke)
The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4. View quote
Rachel Joyce
I like BBC news, I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot. View quote
Brian Grazer
First, I hope to see the British public resist the propaganda onslaught of the pro-Europeans, in which the broadcast media, led by the BBC, have shown themselves willing tools of the government, and vote a resounding "no" in the referendum, if and when it comes. View quote
George MacDonald Fraser
The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio. View quote
Douglas Kennedy