Peter Cook
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"Peter Edward Cook" was an English actor, satirist, writer and comedian.

An extremely influential figure in modern British comedy, he is regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. Cook was closely associated with anti-establishment comedy that emerged in Britain and the United States in the late 1950s.

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My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning.

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I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

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I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.

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I managed to get through the mining exams - they're not very rigorous, they only ask you one question, they say 'Who are you?' and I got seventy-five per cent on that.

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I'd be very surprised if he wasn't picked for Germany now. His confidence is sky high, he's in the form of his life and that's what it's all about as a keeper.

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I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.

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I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin for the judgin'. I never had it, so I'd had it, as far as being a judge was concerned.

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