Johnny Vegas Quotes
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I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.
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I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.
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There is something more spiritual to us than what we are on this earth, but how you access it I'm not sure.
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You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.
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I am a big fan of smelly cheeses but the rest of the family don't seem to be particularly keen on them.
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My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!'
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There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.
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Oh, I'm terrible at travel.
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Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.
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It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.
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I use very few muscles at the best of times.
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You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.
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With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.
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I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for my memories aged nought to ten are all bound up together in a mesh of innocence and fun.
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I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.
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The idea of being on TV 24 hours a day and people seeing the real me... No.
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I used to attract a lot of feeders. I'd be quite happy to be locked in someone's flat and fed liquidised burgers.
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There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.
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I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.
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I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.
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I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.
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I still give myself the right to be highly critical of others, though.
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You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.
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The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.
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It can be tough as a jobbing actor.
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My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.
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I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!
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They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.
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I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up.
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My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.
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