Ben Elton
Ben Elton
Benjamin Charles "Ben" Eltonis an English comedian, author, playwright, actor and director. He was a part of London's alternative comedy movement of the 1980s and became a writer on series such as The Young Ones and Blackadder, as well as continuing as a stand-up comedian on stage and television. His style in the 1980s was left-wing political satire. Since then he has published 15 novels and written the musicals We Will Rock Youand Love Never Dies, the sequel to The...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth3 May 1959
psychology special violence
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
advice looks novel
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
running mistake risk
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.
real world earth
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.
people waiting natural
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
ambition thinking trying
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.
hippie thinking self
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
writing being-in-love lucky
I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
book keys afar
Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
beautiful real imagination
Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable
lying jealous unrequited-love
Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake.
heart men blood
Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body; it had nothing whatsoever to do with a man's emotions. But if that was the case, why did it ache so?
artist
Artists don't create society, they reflect it
old-lady fund bits
You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund