Explore Quotes by Rory Bremner

I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue.

When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.

Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union.

It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road.

I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

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

Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody.

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

I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.

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

What's fascinating about doing comedy about the referendum is, because it is the first time, it is the most extraordinary atmosphere. You find that if you are making jokes about politicians, it becomes intensely political.

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.

I think if there is a God, it's very important that he has a sense of humour - otherwise, you are in for a very miserable afterlife.

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

Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!

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

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

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.

William Hague, the world's favourite hairline.

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.

It is almost impossible to say the name of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawat without adding 'give a dog a bone'