Quotes

Discretion is not my middle name.

There's nothing I like more than talking about myself, so I spent a very pleasant two hours chatting to a lovely lady called Sandra. Towards the end, out of the blue, she said: 'How's your libido Christopher?' Should I be overcome by urges, she suggested, I should retire to the 'dunny' - the lavatory - to attend to them. I can assure you I did not succumb to any such urges.

Physical hardship is not the Biggins way. I feel as if I'm testing the boundaries of endurance when I can't get my favourite table at The Ivy. If there's a spider in the bath at home, I have to get my partner Neil to remove it.

Everyone agrees that I'm far too pretty to play an Ugly Sister.

[in 2013] When I did Porridge (1974) in 1974 I was on 90 pounds an episode. Now, if it's on BBC One or BBC Two, I get over a thousand pounds per episode. It was a wonderful thing for actors and sadly now everybody thinks that actors shouldn't get paid.

[on Operation Yewtree] Yewtree has been appalling. I mean it's been like a witch-hunt on people. And there are certain people who are really, really suffering.

[on Sir Jimmy Savile] He was a television institution and an inspiration to everybody who watched him. He will be sadly missed.

People who watch football have such a strange view on life. They almost demand that this person they love and adore, who is the same sex as them, has to also be heterosexual.

I was doing lots of children's TV, like Rentaghost (1976), and if you were gay in those days you were considered to be a paedophile.

[on bisexual men] They ruin a woman's life. It's so wrong, because you're not owning up to what you are. You lead a double life so how can you be a real person?

The Benny Hill Show (1969) was one of those shows that was liked but people felt it was a bit PC not to like it.

When I left drama school, everybody wanted to go to the RSC, and the only person who got in was me, and they were all furious because I wasn't considered to be a Shakespearean actor at all. I had the best year of my life, working with Judi Dench, Donald Sinden, Elizabeth Spriggs.

I was a huge fan of Mrs Thatcher. I thought she was the most extraordinarily wonderful woman, and she didn't care if no one liked her.

[When asked why he was a Tory supporter in light of the party's overt homophobia and their notorious Section 28 legislation] I don't think gays have been hard done by.

[About Superman's son, Jon Kent, coming out as bisexual in a 2021 issue of DC's Superman comic] "Why do we need it? I think its important that we not pander to the woke system."

[Voicing his disapproval about DC Comics' decision to have Superman's son, Jon Kent, come out as bisexual in a 2021 issue of their Superman comic] "Why? Why? Why do we need it? I think its important that we not pander to the woke system."