21 quotes
You can count on him. He'll always let you down.
Marcel was a modern-day Robin Hood; he would rob from the rich because the poor have no money.
I Wanna Be Yours (2020)
You know, like they say: never trust a thin chef, or a doctor with leprosy.
I Wanna Be Yours (2020)
Having been a tubercular kid with a malformed physique, I have a dread of any situation where the shedding of garments might be required. I can't even swim.
I Wanna Be Yours (2020)
At some point, the Mod look had a short-lived Country Life moment, when the gorgeous mohair sheen of the three-button suit gave way to matte autumnal earth tones. Give it a name: fucking brown.
I Wanna Be Yours (2020)
I soon got a job as a fire-watcher at the Royal Naval Dockyard, the main employer in Plymouth. If anybody asked how many people worked there, the answer was always the same: about ten per cent.
I Wanna Be Yours (2020)
I always judge people by appearances; don't you anyway? I think clothes are important; that's where the nudist camp falls down.
BBC Radio 4 - Dr John Cooper Clarke at the BBC (2016)
Do not go mental, and with that, goodnight.
Have I seen Schindler's List? I was on Schindler's list - Dr Schindler my dentist that is.
I Wanna Be Yours (2020)
[on his Dad] He didn't share the general public's dim view of the late Joseph Stalin.
I Wanna Be Yours (2020)
Drugs eh! That's the trouble; they're indiscriminate. The good memories go with the fuckin' shit you're tryin' to block out.
BBC Four - Evidently...John Cooper Clarke (2012)
Never leave a bookies with a smile on your face.
BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs (2019)
I don't think people would describe me as being tall any more, but if you had to describe me back then you would have said 'tall and thin'. You don't really see as much stunted malnourishment nowadays.
I Wanna Be Yours (2020)
I'm a short-term nostalgic; things were great ten minutes ago. If only I could go back there. At my time of life I suffer from déjà vu and amnesia at the same time; I can't remember what happens next.
BBC Radio 4 - Dr John Cooper Clarke at the BBC (2016)
I was arrested on the flimsiest of evidence. I was occupying the driver's seat of a car that didn't belong to me.
BBC Radio 4 - Dr John Cooper Clarke at the BBC (2016)
As a card-carrying nosey-parker and professional obsessive, I read up on the subject and learned that Baudelaire was a real pernickety dresser and a bit of a dude; this was my kind of guy. I too would be an Urban Poet.
I Wanna Be Yours (2020)
My advice to any poet; you have to be idle to write it. A pen, a notebook and idleness, those are the three requisites for the manufacture of poetry.
BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs (2019)
A suit where I can fall down drunk in a ditch get up the next morning and go on to a wedding; or more likely a funeral at my time of life. I could go to six a week but no man can live on vol-au-vents alone.
BBC Radio 4 - Dr John Cooper Clarke at the BBC (2016)
Everyone thinks they'll make a better judge than any judge don't they? You see these nonces getting off with a six quid fine and being given a house next door to a school. And you think 'I wouldn't have done that'.
BBC Radio 4 - Dr John Cooper Clarke at the BBC (2016)
I was met with the poet’s greatest enemy; indifference.
BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs (2019)