“I worked in a chicken factory, in a steel foundry, I worked on the bin...” — Bob Mortimer Quote

I worked in a chicken factory, in a steel foundry, I worked on the bins for a year or so. It started as a summer job, but I stayed on because I liked it very much. I liked it that it made you very fit, doing all the lifting and that, so I could wear short-sleeved t-shirts, which I'd never been able to do before!

There is a theory in showbiz circles that mentally you remain the same age as when you first tasted fame, and I think there is a grain of truth in this.

I've started to get iritis, which affects the eyes. But I'm not going to give in.

There are a lot of famous people who started out with us and became stars and I wouldn't swap my life with theirs for one second.

I have never seen homosexual chicken or turkey.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

My first memory is being taken for Indian food at the Cookham Tandoori on the High Street - I remember the poppadoms, the onions, the chicken tikka.

So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That's a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.

I feel like I eat pretty clean as my regular routine. I eat a lot of steamed vegetables, steamed chicken. I don't eat that much meat. I'd be maybe, I would say, 90 percent vegetarian. Mostly just because I like the way it makes me feel, not other reasons.