Marcus Brigstocke Quotes

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• I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.
• I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was always doing gags and voices,…
• I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an…
• I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city…
• I don't mind not being cool; I wear a cardigan.
• To the people who've got iPhones: you just bought one, you didn't invent it!
• Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless…
• I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.
• Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is muddling up things…
• All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things are…
• I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.
• No one wants life to end. It was bad enough when my last tour came to an end.
• I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.
• If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.
• I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.
• The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones.
• Jim Henson was an absolute genius.
• Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock.
• I rarely fly, for environmental reasons more than anything else.
• I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.

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