Johnny Vegas

I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up.

— Johnny Vegas

It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.

— Johnny Vegas

We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves.

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Up North you are holding your own. Everyone considers themselves a comedian.

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If you write, produce and direct, you own things and see them through to the end.

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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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For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.

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My name is Michael Pennington, and I am not a comic character.

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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist…

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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…

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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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I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture…

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We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six…

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I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's…

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I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be…

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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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From a certain age, I sort of accepted myself for what I was. And although to other people it was like nothing…

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I am very proud of what 'Johnny' achieved in stand-up comedy because he believed entirely in giving an audience the best kick…

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I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant…

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Being behind the camera is where I feel comfortable. I've found something that I feel I, as 'Michael,' can be as confident…

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I've always said that with kids' TV that people get stuck in it from drama school but that's not fair because I…

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You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody…

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I've been offered all the reality TV shows but have turned them down. If I did it as 'Johnny,' there'd be no…

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The people on the QVC shopping channel convince me that life is worth living. They see the good in everything. People who…

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I always say that the stand-up world is the arena of the unwell, and it is.

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Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.

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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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I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.

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I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

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I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.

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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…

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When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I…

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You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like…

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Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it,…

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I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up,…

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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…

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Being 'Johnny' was almost like an out of body experience. I thought he was just a character that I'd created and could…

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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…

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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 used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a…

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