I was going to be a jazz-fusion guitarist. I came to London at one point with my mate, and we were going to make it. We spent three days there and went back home to our mummies. — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you're at home but don't work when you shine the light of an audience on them. Great writing and live writing are two separate things. — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to Monty Python… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter. — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?' — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
The profession is rife with fear about your age, about your validly, longevity, appearance. It's vanity, and it's hard to sort of avoid all… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
The secret of comedy is don't grow up. That's why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up. — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
I want to do things or write things that make people feel a bit more beautiful or tragic or something because there are so… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
I remember films I made at university, which are unbelievably pretentious. Poetry that I'd written that I delivered to camera, against a Venetian blind,… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
I like the countryside. I like chopping wood. I'd like to be a carpenter. — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
I could say I'm a writer or that I'm a musician but I don't really do music; I do music to go with things… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
