Ask any physical comedian and they'll say the same thing. There are so many dark moments in comedy. — Lee Evans Comedian Copy Share Image
When I started with the comedy me and my wife never thought that it would pay the mortgage. It was just something… — Lee Evans Comedy Copy Share Image
I'm motivated by fear of failure. It's a personal mission to say to all those people from years ago, 'Look, I'm seriously… — Lee Evans Failure Copy Share Image
I think it's healthier to be happy with yourself instead of trying to beat yourself up all the time, which I had… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
My dad always said to me, 'You have got to work,' so I constantly worked and did comedy tours. — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
There are no pictures of me in work mode in the house and no awards. You've got to try to have a… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
I've always been me own man and done me own thing, so anyone shouting a loop about the coffee not being hot… — Lee Evans Coffee Copy Share Image
I'm slightly insecure about looking at myself in the mirror, let alone seeing myself up on screen where I have shaved off… — Lee Evans Alone Copy Share Image
That's my success, if you want to call it that: I've gained confidence about what I write and what I do. — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
In England, we're brought up to think 'don't get too big for your boots.' We prize modesty. I'd never fly into Heathrow… — Lee Evans England Copy Share Image
I wouldn't like to say what I've turned down - they've been huge successes. But I don't mind because I didn't want… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
I take the bins out, do the washing-up and all the run-of-the-mill things like that and that's how I like it to… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
Not on the outside, but at home I do. I get very gloomy and dark, very deep and depressed. Everyone does sometimes,… — Lee Evans Dark Copy Share Image
I fear everything. Darkness, light, fear of insecurity, fear of women, fear of conversation. — Lee Evans Communication Copy Share Image
I think pain becomes your friend. And for me it forces me to push on to the next thing, the better thing,… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
Endgame' has a definite association with my life. I see Hamm as The Establishment and me as the monkey boy who comes… — Lee Evans Endgame Copy Share Image
The easy part is on stage. Life, on the other hand, isn't. The reason I'm probably up on stage in the first… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
It was very easy to say to a white middle-class audience, 'What about Thatcher?' and get a reaction. — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
People say to me, 'You're so ordinary. I say, 'Well, that's who l am. Do you think I get up in the… — Lee Evans Morning Copy Share Image
We never stayed anywhere for long. Southport, Blackpool, Bristol, Essex - we moved all the time. I went to dozens of schools.… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
It's a real honour to be the first comedian to play the O2 which will be the single biggest gig of my… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I sort of sat in a darkened room a lot of the time. I was very lonely… — Lee Evans Imagination Copy Share Image
The thing about the BBC is I've grown up with it. It's 'Hancock,' Leonard Rossiter, Morecambe & Wise, 'Blackadder,' 'Fawlty Towers'... I… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
I don't want to be one of them old codgers, 'Oh yes, I went to Australia for the Comedy Festival once... I… — Lee Evans Australia Copy Share Image
It's true that Scottish audiences are harder to impress but, if they like you, they're very passionate. — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
My comedy is about nothing. I do it because I feel less inadequate on stage moving about than I do off stage… — Lee Evans Comedy Copy Share Image
