Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan
Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan KBEwas a comedian, writer and actor. The son of an Irish father and an English mother, his early life was spent in India where he was born. The majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He disliked his first name and began to call himself "Spike" after hearing a band on Radio Luxembourg called Spike Jones and his City Slickers...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth16 April 1918
CityAhmednagar, India
CountryIreland
My manager, Norma, was trying to get me to write it for at least 10 years and being the reclusive person I am, I wanted people to judge me for what they saw on the television, on the films or on the stage. And what I did apart from that was my own affair. So to write my autobiography was, to me, an anathema.
Just when I had made my today secure with safe yesterdays I see tomorrow coming with it's pale glass star called hope It shatters on impact And falls like splinters on cruel rain And I see the red oil of life running from my wrists onto tomorrows hea
His vibrato sounded like he was driving a tractor over a ploughed field with weights tied to his scrotum.
I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
I'm a hero with coward's legs. I'm a hero from the waist up.
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.
Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?
We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong!
Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
General: Where are you from? Spike: London. General: Which part? Spike: ... Well, all of me.
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.