30 Quotes by Craig Charles

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.

It’s evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

Who needs drugs when you have Takeshi’s Castle?

I’m busy and that’s the way I like it – when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

I have a stepladder. It’s a very nice stepladder but it’s sad that I never knew my real ladder.

I was thinking – if we get a cell with a trouser press, we can make cheese toasties.

It’s not supposed to be easy, if it’s easy, it’s no good, that’s the way I look at it.

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’ve got wealth and fame but I haven’t changed my roots.