Ian Hislop famous quotes

03-24-2025

You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'
-- Ian Hislop

#Thinking #Problem #No Problem
The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.
-- Ian Hislop

#Strong #Comedy #Weak
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
-- Ian Hislop

#Mother #Witty #Clever
In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No no, no no, you don't ban it... you don't buy it.
-- Ian Hislop

#People #Mail #Bears
I do have a residual belief that, if at all possible, you should try not to mock the weak
-- Ian Hislop

#Trying #Belief #Weak
I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
-- Ian Hislop

#People #Stories #Film
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.
-- Ian Hislop

#Mean #People #Peculiar
I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
-- Ian Hislop

#Common #Enjoy
You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz
-- Ian Hislop

#Kings #England #Chivalry
There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
-- Ian Hislop

#News #Television #Awful
No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
-- Ian Hislop

#Helping #Source #Journalist
I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
-- Ian Hislop

#Pokemon #Made #Worst
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
-- Ian Hislop

#Lawyer #Given #Libel

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