Author: Ben Elton

Quotes

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.

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.

- Ben Elton

I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

- Ben Elton

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

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

- Ben Elton

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

- Ben Elton

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

- Ben Elton

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.

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.

- Ben Elton

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

- Ben Elton

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

- Ben Elton

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