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Harry Enfield

(1961) Actor United Kingdom

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Harry Enfield is an actor from the United Kingdom, best known for Wad and Peeps.

Quick Facts About Harry Enfield

Born: May 30, 1961
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Wad and Peeps

About Harry Enfield

Henry Richard Enfield is an English comedy actor and writer known in particular for his television work. His shows include Harry Enfield's Television Programme, Harry Enfield & Chums and Harry & Paul, across which he created and portrayed characters such as Kevin the Teenager, Loadsamoney, Smashie and Nicey, The Scousers, Tim Nice-But-Dim and Mr "You Don't Want to Do It Like That".

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Harry Enfield · Page 3

Like most lapsed Catholics, I will probably return to the fold when I start to fear death.

Death

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If people like you, and you disappoint them, they get very hurt by it.

Get

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No, I can't write a novel. I don't have a story.

Books

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Why is everyone so obsessed with attracting the young? The Telegraph, Radio 4 - everyone wants a younger audience when everyone knows…

Getting older

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When you join the wonderful world of showbiz, you quickly find yourself meeting all sorts of famous people.

Famous

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The Slobs were written in a very 2D way, but Kathy Burke brought a touching quality to all her characters.

Characters

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I don't play golf. I don't know anything about golf.

About

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Writing scripts is fine because you get through a page quickly. But writing words just reminds me of school. To me a…

Books

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I don't believe in Tony Blair.

Believe

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One aspect of the male that women find hard to understand is his obsession with electronic gadgets such as mobile phones, tiddly…

Computers

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Our sense of humour is complementary. I'm populist; and Paul's more sophisticated.

Humor

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I used to watch a lot of afternoon TV. I started imitating the movies then.

Afternoon

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I'm trying to stop reading the Daily Telegraph. I've read it for several years because I prefer to read a pro-Government newspaper…

Daily

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I've had dinner with two Beatles and a Rolling Stone;I've said 'hello' to Whitney Houston and shared a cab with Larry Adler.

Beatles

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I have a dear friend called Kate St John who is a musical genius.

Dear

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I'm not very good at acting. Overacting is what I do.

Acting

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You're cutting off your nose to spite your face if you try to be self-consciously cutting-edge.

Face

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I've had a huge career of killing off characters. Low attention span. Done that, that works, done. I can't get out of…

Again

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Sometimes I have really good ideas, but it is always Paul's language that makes them work. Without him I'd be more clinical,…

Good

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I tried for about a year to write a teenage character until I finally got the phrase 'he has lost the power…

Character

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Little Britain' happened and it was so deliciously uncool.

Britain

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As a teenager I was pretty horrible.

Horrible

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People are much more vicious about comedy than about anything else. If it's drama they go: 'Oh well, that didn't really work.'…

Comedy

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It's about time we stopped being so insecure and defensive and admitted that the Germans are better at economics than us. We…

Being

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I don't want my kids talked about. It's one of the reasons I thought that if I could just make a go…

Being

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