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Rory Bremner

I don't think my life would be significantly poorer if I don't impersonate Nick Clegg. Life is short enough without sitting up night after night listening to tapes of him.

— Rory Bremner life

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.

— Rory Bremner art

Location is everything, I'd rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star hotel in Frankfurt.

— Rory Bremner cat

I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it's entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you're a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.

— Rory Bremner you

I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the middle of Chelsea. But that's part of our heritage - being part of Britain, part of Europe. I love being European.

— Rory Bremner love

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

— Rory Bremner politics

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.

— Rory Bremner men

I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling.

— Rory Bremner man

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

— Rory Bremner tea

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

— Rory Bremner age

I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.

— Rory Bremner work

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

— Rory Bremner art

But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.

— Rory Bremner war

So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links.

— Rory Bremner war

Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that, when the 1901 census first went online, the website crashed after a million people logged on within hours of its launch.

— Rory Bremner truth

I am proud of Edinburgh's status as a financial centre, but where is it on the index of global financial centres? Sixty-fourth. Below Hamilton, Casablanca and Mauritius. London, by contrast, is second only to New York. That's a link worth keeping.

— Rory Bremner

I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power.

— Rory Bremner art

Maybe we like our politicians to appear like bumbling oafs. It certainly never did Ronald Reagan or George Bush any harm. The Italians still seem enamoured of Silvio Berlusconi - a man whose entry into a room is less likely to be greeted with the Italian national anthem than by the Benny Hill theme tune.

— Rory Bremner man

When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. But something happened - was it just the arrogance of power? - that narrowed Labour's vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism.

— Rory Bremner power

When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

— Rory Bremner men

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

— Rory Bremner age

Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.

— Rory Bremner man

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

— Rory Bremner real

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

— Rory Bremner education

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

— Rory Bremner idea

I dont think my life would be significantly poorer if I dont impersonate Nick Clegg. Life is short enough without sitting up night after night listening to tapes of him.

— Rory Bremner life

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