Spike Milligan Quotes


I remember lying out in my bed and looking at the vast, quiet sky. Right up above my head, there were three stars in a row, and I remember thinking, 'Well, I'll have those three stars all my life, and wherever I am, they will be. They are my stars, and they belong to me.'


Citations

Milligan, Spike. It Ends with Magic: A Milligan Family Story. Michael Joseph, 1990.

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Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan
  • Born: April 16, 1918
  • Died: February 27, 2002
  • Nationality: British, Irish
  • Profession: Actor, Comedian, Writer, Musician, Poet, Playwright

Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan KBE was a British-Irish actor, comedian, writer, poet and playwright. The son of an Irish father and an English mother, Milligan was born in India, where he spent his childhood, relocating to live and work the majority of his life in the United Kingdom. Disliking his first name, he began to call himself "Spike" after hearing the band Spike Jones and his City Slickers on Radio Luxembourg.