Quotes by Clive Anderson

About Clive Anderson:

Clive Anderson is an English television and radio presenter, comedy writer and former barrister. Winner of a British Comedy Award in 1991, Anderson began experimenting with comedy and writing comedic scripts during his 15-year law career, before starring in Whose Line Is It Anyway? on BBC Radio 4, then later Channel 4. He has also been successful with a number of radio programmes, television interviews and guest appearances on Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week and QI. He has also recently appeared on Alexander Armstrong's TV panel show 'Alexander Armstrong's Big Ask'
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I'm pale-skinned so I don't feel at my best on a beach.

Clive Anderson

My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.

Clive Anderson

I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.

Clive Anderson

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

Clive Anderson

Research gathered over recent years has highlighted the countless benefits to people, wildlife and the environment that come from planting trees and creating new woodland habitat. It's obvious trees are good things.

Clive Anderson

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

Clive Anderson

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

Clive Anderson

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

Clive Anderson

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

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I think political correctness is a moving line.

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I like being forced to think about things in a different way.

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I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

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I like to think of myself as a natural gardener.

Clive Anderson

I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of being blown away or rained on. And in the summer months you can be eaten alive by midges.

Clive Anderson

It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.

Clive Anderson

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

Clive Anderson

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are.

Clive Anderson

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.

Clive Anderson

If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually...

Clive Anderson

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

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Author Bio

  • NameClive Anderson
  • DescriptionTelevision Presenter, lawyer
  • BornDecember 10, 1952
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor