Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Craig Charles

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British actor Craig Charles.
Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Craig Charles

Craig Joseph Charles is an English actor, comedian, television and radio presenter. He is best known for his roles as Dave Lister in the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf and Lloyd Mullaney in the soap opera Coronation Street. He presented the gladiator-style game show Robot Wars from 1998 to 2004, and narrated the comedy endurance show Takeshi's Castle. As a DJ, he appears on BBC Radio 6 Music.

For me, everything has always been an accident.
I've been very lucky, this is my 30th year on TV.
Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them. — © Craig Charles
Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.
Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.
The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.
It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.
I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.
We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.
There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.
I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.
British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.
What's amazing is that I'm recognized all over the world through 'Red Dwarf.' British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse. It makes you feel like a rock star!
I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.
It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.
Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went off the rails a bit really, 'cause there was no training for it. They didn't do fame in schools.
Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.
You've got to take the positives.
My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows. — © Craig Charles
My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.
I was thinking - if we get a cell with a trouser press, we can make cheese toasties.
Who needs drugs when you have Takeshi's Castle?
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