Frank Skinner

I like to turn up my collar when I'm leaving the theatre and feel like I'm some heroic comedian figure.

— Frank Skinner

I think when anyone says you look like a famous person you fiercely deny it, and then go around hoping other people…

— Frank Skinner

I stopped drinking on 24 September 1986.

— Frank Skinner

“Anyway, my writer gang: they kind of did their comedy apprenticeship with me and, during that period, when they were young and…

— Frank Skinner

I suppose that every relationship I have been in has had a lot of arguments. I find it very hard to keep…

— Frank Skinner

Sometimes when you start improvising on stage, which I do a fair bit of, obviously you haven't planned it. But to be…

— Frank Skinner

After I became a professional comedian, I took to listening to Cash's classic hit 'Ring of Fire' before I went on stage.…

— Frank Skinner

I would like to talk about poems like I talk about football.

— Frank Skinner

If you strip a lot of performers to the core, you find that urge to show off.

— Frank Skinner

I did a few mainstream clubs in Birmingham when I started out. Racist comedy was absolutely the norm. Every act was doing…

— Frank Skinner

You can spend your whole life trying to be popular, but at the end of the day, the size of the crowd…

— Frank Skinner

When I started earning, a lot of me didn't need worrying about anymore, so I had scope to worry about someone else.…

— Frank Skinner

There is a period in your life when you need your parents and a period in your life where you only think…

— Frank Skinner

My dreams are things like: I'm in the supermarket, I queue, and then I leave the supermarket. It's basically my life but…

— Frank Skinner

I wish I had started to play the ukulele much earlier in life.

— Frank Skinner

Well, I think that the most exciting stage of any tour is getting the tour together. Because when new material works, there…

— Frank Skinner

I actually like - if I may use the F word - fame. I like people stopping me in the street and…

— Frank Skinner

I'm world-famous in West Bromwich.

— Frank Skinner

For clothes I usually go to Ben Sherman.

— Frank Skinner

The Daily Mirror called me a 'money-grabbing reptile' once. I could cope with the reptile part, but 'money-grabbing' hurt.

— Frank Skinner

I love being able to talk about anything.

— Frank Skinner

I haven't had fun since the 1980s!

— Frank Skinner

Poetry has always been this completely alien art to me. I am the sort of bloke who, when he gets into things,…

— Frank Skinner

On radio there's an obligation to be funny or interesting, and ideally both.

— Frank Skinner

I thought I used to be as 'me' on stage as it's possible to be, but on the radio show I found…

— Frank Skinner