Words of the week

SORRY, for being a prat, but I will always be a prat. – An unnamed climber who had to be rescued from Snowdon on New Year’s Day.

HE’S a con artist. He’s a huckster. He’s a scam artist. And what bothers me is that people don’t see that. – Actor Robert De Niro on President Donald Trump.

ROBERT De Niro, a very Low IQ individual, has received too many shots to the head by real boxers in movies. I watched him last night and truly believe he may be punch-drunk. – President Trump’s opinion of the actor.

I DON’T buy into guilt. It can be a very negative emotion, and it clearly wasn’t going to help as this was a job – I had to do it. – TV presenter Julia Bradbury admitting she felt “pangs of guilt” about being away from her family while filming in Australia.

YOU have to be quite stupid to act. – Actress Rachel Weisz.

WHEN I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life. – Actress Glenda Jackson.

I WOULDN’T want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldn’t for the life of me do the job in real life. – Actor Jim Carter who starred as the butler in Downton Abbey.

WE need not an Iron Chancellor but a tungsten hardened boss in the Treasury who gets inordinate pleasure out of saying ‘No, not a penny more’. – Sir Bernard Ingham, writing in The Yorkshire Post.

I HAVE great admiration for people who do fast-moving live television, but an awful lot of television is just ‘stand up, smile’ and you really often don’t have to think for yourself. – Broadcaster Ken

Bruce.

THE Transport Secretary has awarded a £14m contract to a company with no money, no ships, no track record, no employees, no ports, one telephone line and no working website or sailing schedule. – Shadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald MP condemns Chris Grayling.

THIS is too serious for us to play a massive game of Brexit chicken. The country cannot afford to wait to see who blinks first. – Yvette Cooper, the Pontefract and Castleford MP, on Brexit.