Jack Dee Quotes

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• Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older…
• I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's…
• If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.
• In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.
• In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
• My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the…
• Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
• But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I…
• I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
• I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
• I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was…
• And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.
• I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person…
• I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
• One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it.
• I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is…

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