I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter. — Julian Barratt Create Copy Share Image
When things start running a bit too well on the tracks, I tend to derail them if I can. — Julian Barratt I can Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out. — Julian Barratt Back Copy Share Image
I was in a band called Groove Solution. Because there was a groove crisis, and we solved it. — Julian Barratt Band Copy Share Image
When you're really laughing, you feel like a little kid, and nothing matters. — Julian Barratt Comedy Copy Share Image
I find the pressure to be funny when you're being interviewed live - quite intense. — Julian Barratt Being Copy Share Image
Laughter's good, but it's not love. It's one aspect. One emotion you're eliciting from your audience. — Julian Barratt Audience Copy Share Image
With something that's not based just in comedy, you can be a bit weirder in a slightly realistic way. — Julian Barratt Based 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… — Julian Barratt Actor Copy Share Image
I think with performing, initially I was terrified on stage, absolutely terrified. And I did it again and again and again, and… — Julian Barratt Again Copy Share Image
We should send a load of bad celebrities to colonise Mars. They would have to mate in space, and then their children… — Julian Barratt Bad Copy Share Image
I can't do jokes. I've always come from left field and tried to subvert conventional comedy. I started as a rebellion against… — Julian Barratt Always Copy Share Image
We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical. — Julian Barratt Laugh 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… — Julian Barratt Blind Copy Share Image
I always dreamt of being in 'Kerrang.' That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then… — Julian Barratt Always Copy Share Image
It's strange, but something about lack of structure needs a structure itself. Otherwise, after a while, it's like looking at a Rothko… — Julian Barratt Architecture 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… — Julian Barratt Actor Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes you two or three seconds to get your head round a joke and laugh at it. With a snot-bubble… — Julian Barratt Joke Copy Share Image
I can act with either eye, but you've got to be twice as good as an actor to act with one eye.… — Julian Barratt Actor Copy Share Image
It's a weird profession, as I don't really consider myself an actor. I did at one point, and I went and started… — Julian Barratt Actor 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… — Julian Barratt Comedy Copy Share Image
My dad listened to a load of jazz - Mahavishnu, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock. — Julian Barratt Dad Copy Share Image
Sport doesn't do anything for me. And I don't do anything for it. — Julian Barratt Anything Copy Share Image
We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?' — Julian Barratt Comedians Copy Share Image
Most stand-up is incredibly boring. It's time for people to do something else. — Julian Barratt Boring Copy Share Image
I love 'Airplane,' and I love 'Naked Gun' and all those films, where you're parodying. — Julian Barratt Airplane Copy Share Image
Most comedians are borderline psychotic. It's what makes their work interesting. — Julian Barratt Comedians Copy Share Image
I like the countryside. I like chopping wood. I'd like to be a carpenter. — Julian Barratt Carpenter 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 Comedians Copy Share Image
Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it. — Julian Barratt Adapting Copy Share Image
I write tragedies and things when I'm alone. Chekhovian dramas. — Julian Barratt Alone Copy Share Image
Not really a good idea to eat things fans have made because you don't know what state of mind they were in… — Julian Barratt Fans 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… — Julian Barratt Beautiful Copy Share Image
We just thought of 'Boosh' as an extension of our childhoods in a way, the stuff we had grown up on and… — Julian Barratt Childhoods Copy Share Image
I was going to be a jazz-fusion guitarist. I came to London at one point with my mate, and we were going… — Julian Barratt Back 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… — Julian Barratt Create Copy Share Image
With the 'Boosh,' we were trying to do this strange, weird thing that had its own language and visual style, and it… — Julian Barratt Language Copy Share Image
