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I grew up in London, a city devastated by the bombing. I am, you might say, a Blitz Baby.
- David Jason
#Baby
#City
#I Am
#Say
#Up
A lot of TV has moved away from family viewing. But with 'The Royal Bodyguard,' we have tried to make a show when no one will be worried about sitting there with their kids or their grandma.
- David Jason
#Family
#Royal
#Sitting
#Tried
#Will
Don't get me started on BBC salaries. We were never the big league. Situation comedy has always been the poor relation in the television entertainment business.
- David Jason
#Business
#Entertainment
#Me
#Television
I have a yellow labrador, Tuffy, and a little rescue dog, Bella, who is the boss.
- David Jason
#Boss
#Dog
#Rescue
#Who
#Yellow
We seem to have lost our British sense of humour. It's a great shame. We have to be so careful nowadays; we have lost a lot of humour because people are too frightened of getting too near touchy subjects.
- David Jason
#Careful
#Great
#Lost
#People
#Shame
People ask me if I am thinking of retiring. Well, it doesn't occur to me. Different day, different challenge, different way. Lovely jubbly.
- David Jason
#Day
#I Am
#Me
#Thinking
#Way
We have more and more rules coming out of Europe telling us what to do, and I think people are getting a bit fed up with it. This was supposed to be a common market. I don't remember them ever saying we would be governed by Brussels and become a satellite of Europe.
- David Jason
#Coming
#Europe
#People
#Remember
#Rules
Working on 'Open All Hours' had some unexpected perks, not least the attractions of the canteen at the BBC's rehearsal studios in West London.
- David Jason
#Least
#Open
#Rehearsal
#Unexpected
#West
My father, Arthur, was a fishmonger, first at Billingsgate market and later in Camden Town and Golders Green.
- David Jason
#Father
#First
#Green
#Market
#Town
One of the things I learned was that I really enjoyed stunt-car driving.
- David Jason
#Driving
#Enjoyed
#Learned
#Things
While I've got my health and fitness, I'm available... except for panto, of course. Too bloody much like hard work.
- David Jason
#Fitness
#Hard Work
#Hard
#Health
#Work
A couple of years ago, I bought my own helicopter, a Robinson R44. I use it occasionally to fly myself to sets where I am filming or to business meetings.
- David Jason
#Business
#Fly
#I Am
#Meetings
#Myself
I don't think I would ever have taken on professional acting roles if I hadn't had the ability to fly. I had quite low self-esteem, and it gave me the self-confidence to believe I could do anything that I put my mind to.
- David Jason
#Believe
#Fly
#Me
#Mind
#Professional
Comedy is a funny business, which you have to take seriously.
- David Jason
#Business
#Comedy
#Funny
#Seriously
#Take
After leaving school, I worked as an electrician before becoming an actor.
- David Jason
#Actor
#Electrician
#Leaving
#School
I enjoy life so much I don't want it to end, and dying does worry me. If you've got faith, you believe that you're going to go to a magic land, but unfortunately, I don't have faith.
- David Jason
#Believe
#Enjoy Life
#Faith
#Life
#Me
My father used to say, 'What the hell are you listening to? Put that bloody rubbish off.' And it was The Beatles.
- David Jason
#Bloody
#Father
#Hell
#Listening
#Say
I have no interest in Twitter or Twotter or Twatter. It would never occur to me to use it. People who Tweet during programmes are always asking, 'What happened then?' If you're bloody Twittering away all the time, you miss what is actually going on.
- David Jason
#Always
#Me
#Never
#People
#Time
While scuba diving off the British Virgin Islands about 25 years ago, our boat's anchor got stuck. I dived down to release it, but I got separated from the boat and was stranded as it sped away. I had to swim for an hour to the nearest island with all my scuba kit on before I was rescued.
- David Jason
#Anchor
#Boat
#Down
#Island
#Stuck
My parents, Arthur and Olwen, were honest, working-class people who raised my brother Arthur, sister June, and me with the values of that era - patriotism, stoicism, honesty, concern for your neighbours, and judging a man by what he did rather than what he had.
- David Jason
#Honesty
#Man
#Me
#Parents
#Patriotism
For me, the making of a documentary to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain was an intensely personal journey. I was born in February 1940, so I was just six months old as the battle raged overhead.
- David Jason
#Anniversary
#Battle
#Born
#Journey
#Me
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