23 Quotes by Ronnie Barker

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, its the best job in the world.

In a packed programme tonight, I shall be having a word with a man who goes in for meditation, because he thinks it's better than sitting around doing nothing.

In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

Barker was a great writer, a great actor and a great loss to us all. I think God must have needed cheering up.

We have decided that this offence is too serious for a community sentence. You will be sent to a young offenders' institution for six months.

To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male Choir is the best in choral singing. How then can they be described except in superlatives? They are without equal.

If I was as rich as Rockefeller I'd be richer than Rockefeller, because I'd do a bit of window cleaning on the side.

If I was as rich as Rockefeller I’d be richer than Rockefeller, because I’d do a bit of window cleaning on the side.

It’s better to make people laugh than cry.