Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Kenneth Williams

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British actor Kenneth Williams.

Last updated on December 20, 2024.

Kenneth Charles Williams was an English actor. He was best known for his comedy roles and in later life as a raconteur and diarist. He was one of the main ensemble in 26 of the 31 Carry On films, and appeared in many British television programmes and radio comedies, including series with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne, as well as being a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4's comedy panel show Just a Minute from its second series in 1968 until his death 20 years later.

British - Actor | February 22, 1926 - April 15, 1988

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It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

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We know grooming is important for people. To get their hair done, to get makeup and things like that - that makes a person feel better.

Kenneth Williams

I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.

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The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.

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People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.

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A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself.

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I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

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I didn't like the King's Cross world: it was grimy and dirty. I always envisioned myself in much more romantic and grand surroundings. I never really thought that I belonged to the working-class area at all.

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Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.

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A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor hes not alone in the way he feels about himself.

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I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?

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The program is already funded. Everything is in place.

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It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur.

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All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND.

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They say Im demonic in humor in the sense that I think people need somebody to wake up their mental processes.

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And I take full responsibility for my actions and whatever consequences my peers see fit.

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I can't stand innuendo. If I see one in a script I whip it out immediately.

Kenneth Williams

The nicest thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.

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Love is when you would go to the very end of the world with her, and in case she feels weary and tired in between the journey, you would carry her till the end.

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A genial and cultured Arab, Ameen Rihani, whose English is perfect and whose eloquence is astounding. He will discuss with equal eagerness and knowledge the merits of Picasso or Van Gogh, or the Zionist question, or the British achievements in Arabia.

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You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon.

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