Stephen Mangan

When you've lost a loved one, you realise how grateful you are for any help in those moments, and any scheme that…

— Stephen Mangan

My upbringing is so fundamentally different to my parents'. It must be strange to look at your child who not only speaks…

— Stephen Mangan

Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But…

— Stephen Mangan

I learnt a lot about how to negotiate the camera: everyone had told me an actor doesn't really need to do anything…

— Stephen Mangan

My mother was gentle and warm. She was the sort of person you could really open up to. I was the eldest…

— Stephen Mangan

When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided…

— Stephen Mangan

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination…

— Stephen Mangan

I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being…

— Stephen Mangan

I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.

— Stephen Mangan

I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.

— Stephen Mangan

I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldn't dignify it with the term band - get…

— Stephen Mangan

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

— Stephen Mangan

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people wont.

— Stephen Mangan

I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries.

— Stephen Mangan

I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at…

— Stephen Mangan

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create…

— Stephen Mangan

My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.

— Stephen Mangan

Theatre's a much less faddish, more sensible world than TV or film.

— Stephen Mangan

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people won't.

— Stephen Mangan

I dont like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney about me, but…

— Stephen Mangan

I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types.

— Stephen Mangan

I can watch anything from 1970s West Coast rock to 1990s electro-funk - I don't care.

— Stephen Mangan

I don't like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney about me, but…

— Stephen Mangan

I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.

— Stephen Mangan

I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith... But I slowly came to realise that the people you…

— Stephen Mangan