English Producer Quotes

Richard D'Oyly Carte

Jimmy Perry

Martin Rushent

Who do you think you are kidding, Mister Hitler?
If you think we're on the run?
We are the boys who will stop your little game
We are the boys who will make you think again.

It filled me with dread – she had a reputation for being difficult. She had been headlining on the Royal Command performance the night before we were due to start. She arrived and swept through reception looking like thunder and disappeared into the studio. I thought, 'I'm the first here, I'd better go in and introduce myself'. I walked in and I said: 'Morning Miss Bassey, my name is Martin Rushent and I'm going to be your new engineer and co-producer'. She threw a mic stand at me. She told me to get out. She apologised afterwards, I hasten to add.

Life at H.I.V.E. may have its attractions after all, Otto thought. Friends, as they say, may come and go, but high-powered laser weapons are forever.

Queen Victoria: I thought gags were things that were put by authority into people's mouths.
D'Oyly Carte: These gags, your Majesty, are things that people put into their own mouths without authority

Richard D'Oyly Carte