Clive Anderson Quotes

• Well, I’m happier talking about other people than me.

  Clive Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Happier

• Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

  Clive Anderson

  Topics in Father, Mother

  Tags in Music, Lucky

• Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice.

  Clive Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Together, Provide, Creatures

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Research

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Front, Global, About

• If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

  Clive Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Realize, Support, Greater

• I try to make myself walk around a bit, but I probably think about it more than I actually do it. Years ago, I did think about joining a gym.

  Clive Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Myself, Actually

• I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

  Clive Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Defeat, Object

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful, Famous

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

  Clive Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Another, Keep, Elections

• 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.

  Clive Anderson

  Topics in Children

  Tags in People, Difficult, Idea

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Home, Perfect, Favourite

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

  Clive Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, True

• 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 there’s nowhere to move on to.

  Clive Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Things, Earth

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Definitely, Television

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interest, Destroyed

• I’m pale-skinned so I don’t feel at my best on a beach.

  Clive Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feel, Best

• I think political correctness is a moving line.

  Clive Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Think

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Remember, Realising

• I like to think of myself as a natural gardener.

  Clive Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Natural, Myself

Clive Anderson (26)

Birth:	10th December, 1952
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Barrister, Radio Personality, Television Presenter, Writer

About

Clive Anderson was born in Middlesex, England. He is an English game Show Host, Radio personality, comedy writer and former barrister. 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'. He made his name as host of the improvised television comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, which ran for 10 series. He hosted his own chat-show, Clive Anderson Talks Back, on Channel 4, which ran for 10 series. On 25 February 2008, he started presenting Brainbox Challenge, a new game show, for BBC Two. The show Whose Line is it Anyway? won a BAFTA award in 1990. Later, he won both the "Top Entertainment Presenter" and "Top Radio Comedy Personality" at the British Comedy Awards in 1991.

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