I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It’s a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage. – Rory Bremner
One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K. – Rory Bremner
I’m much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling. – Rory Bremner
It’s no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all. – Rory Bremner
I am more relaxed at home in Scotland, and my children are of an age where I want us, as a family, to spend more time up here. – Rory Bremner
I am proud of Edinburgh’s status as a financial centre, but where is it on the index of global financial centres? Sixty-fourth. Below Hamilton, Casablanca and Mauritius. London, by contrast, is second only to New York. That’s a link worth keeping. – Rory Bremner
I’ve never felt entirely comfortable in high society. I’m more comfortable talking to the bar staff than the super-rich. I don’t really get what makes them tick. – Rory Bremner
When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994. – Rory Bremner
Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody. – Rory Bremner
I remember when Tony Blair came into office, and there was a sense I was thinking, ‘Well, what on Earth am I going to do now?’ until I realized that’s exactly what he was thinking. – Rory Bremner
I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening. – Rory Bremner
It’s a new world that’s very, very difficult to make sense of. But we have a new hope. We have a new man. America has now elected its first openly black President. – Rory Bremner
I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There’s a gender issue. – Rory Bremner
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is. – Rory Bremner
Like millions of Scots, I’ve agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union. – Rory Bremner
It’s harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in a sea of scorn. And while the world cries out for greater analysis and insight, we are distracted by bread and circuses, aka the ‘Great British Bake-Off’ and ‘Tumble.’ We should rediscover our tradition of satire. Of speaking truth unto power. – Rory Bremner
I like the idea of people coming to opera for the first time and finding it an enjoyable experience. I don’t like the fact that opera is seen as elitist and all black ties and that stuff. – Rory Bremner
I think I probably tend to make life hard for myself by taking on too many things. I call it plate spinning. – Rory Bremner
When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there’s been this explosion. – Rory Bremner
