Dudley Moore Quotations

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it.

I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.

I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on.

I can't imagine not having music in my life, playing for myself or for other people.

Maybe the memory does play tricks. Increasingly, I'm thinking, 'What was their name? I knew that name yesterday.' I think that's what happens. At some point, I'll forget that I ever worked with Peter Cook, I suppose, and Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller.

It seems that a lot of people, who haven't known of me as a pianist, think I've just started off as a comedian. And so for them the piano was something extra. But, of course, playing the piano was something that came before all of what's happened now.

In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.

Volvo — they're boxy but they're good.

Music is the surest way of reaching someone else's heart.

Masturbation is always very safe. You not only control the person you're with, but you can leave when you want to.

When I think of Canada I think of tonic water.

I can hear the music all around me.

Jaguar — For men who'd like hand-jobs from beautiful women they hardly know.

I wish I had a dime for every dime I have.

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands.

They also said it about a lot of nutcases.

It was very important to be here. It's a continuation of life,