For sheer creativity and totality of involvement, 'Rolf's Cartoon Club' with HTV in Bristol was an amazing show to work on, but I think the 'Rolf on Art' series, culminating in the painting of the Queen's portrait to celebrate her 80th birthday, just nudges into the favourite spot.
People can see you on TV sloshing paint around with big four-inch brushes, and I learned to talk to camera in a friendly voice, not talking down to people, just explaining what I was doing. People like Picasso, Van Gogh, and Rembrandt did not have a weekly TV programme where people could see them painting.
It's essential that you make eye contact with your audience. You've got to know what's happening out there.
I draw the line at filth and crude language. It seems to be an excuse for not being funny.
I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was the hub of the universe.
When I was presenting 'Animal Hospital,' the grey started to creep into my beard and moustache. I used my wife's mascara to darken it.
I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.'
If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.
I always felt I had to fill silences, usually by singing or whistling. It was nerves and shyness, really.
I was being singled out as the best in the class at this, that and the other, nearly always to do with art. And then I was a very good swimmer from a very early age, and once again the best in the class, and when I was about five or six, I was the best in the school.
Prison is no hardship, really. I'm in the art room as an assistant to the tutor, and basically, I'm doing what I like.
