Peter Cook
Peter Cook
Peter Edward Cookwas an English actor, satirist, writer and comedian. An extremely influential figure in modern British comedy, Cook is regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. He was closely associated with the anti-establishment comedy that emerged in Britain and the United States in the late 1950s...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth17 November 1937
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My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning
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I'd be very surprised if he wasn't picked for Germany now. His confidence is sky high, he's in the form of his life and that's what it's all about as a keeper.
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I managed to get through the mining exams - they're not very rigorous, they only ask you one question, they say 'Who are you?' and I got seventy-five per cent on that.
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Job was what you'd technically describe as a loony.
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I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.
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I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin for the judgin'. I never had it, so I'd had it, as far as being a judge was concerned... I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.
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You realize that suicide's a criminal offense — In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.
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The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.
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The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.
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We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.
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I would like to like to make one thing clear at the very outset and that is, when you speak of a train robbery, this involved no loss of train, merely what I like to call the contents of the train, which were pilfered. We haven't lost a train since 1946, I believe it was - the year of the great snows when we mislaid a small one.
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I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.
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I saw an advertisement the other day for the secret of life. It said 'The secret of life can be yours for twenty-five shillings. Sent to Secret of Life Institute, Willesden.' So I wrote away, seemed a good bargain, secret of life, twenty-five shillings. And I got a letter back saying, 'If you think you can get the secret of life for twenty-five shillings, you don't deserve to have it. Send fifty shillings for the secret of life.
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I didn't know dirty words could be done that artfully.