Book Quote by Lee Mack Download Open image “If I was reading a book about a comedian, I wouldn't really care too much about their childhood.” — Lee Mack ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Care Childhood Children Comedian Reading Reading A Book
Comedians have this happy, charmed life, where they're the centre of their own universe and can do what they want, but when you have… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
I never was obsessed with comedians. When I was a little, little boy, I'd watch, like, George Carlin on 'Dinah Shore.' — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
Every male comedian of note who is over the age of 45 has a kid, and they talk about it and don't get grouped… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
I've never felt any sense of kinship with other comedians; they've always seemed too needy. — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike. — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
“Comedians in their infancy are generally selfish, irresponsible, emotionally retarded, morally dubious, substance-addicted animals who live out of boxes and milk crates. They are plagued with feelings of failure and fraudulence. They are prone to fleeting fits of manic grandiosity and are completely dependent on the acceptance and approval of rooms full of strangers, strangers the comedian resents until he… — Marc Maron Copy Share
A lot of comedians get a bad rep once they have kids and that's all they talk about, and people are like, 'I don't… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
I was brought up with TV comedians. I'll remember them till I go to my grave, all those comedians, as decadent fluff. — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude. — Etta James Copy Share Image
For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the… — Bob Newhart 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 Copy Share Image
I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
We're all basically decent human beings so if 3,000 people are laughing at a joke then it's worth telling. — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
I used to tell people I was a comic and they'd be fascinated. Now all you get is: 'Oh yeah, my cousin Steve's a… — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
If I am old-fashioned, it's not a conscious decision. I just do material that I think is funny. — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
I have to say I like Edinburgh, but I'm not a big fan of the Festival - I like it but I'm not a… — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
Genuinely my big thing and the reason I'm in 'The Miser' is because I always ask myself one simple question when I'm offered anything:… — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
The best comedy you can ever have is when you're in the pub with your mates. You can never beat that. That's what I… — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
In TV, you get driven to work in a luxury car, and find flowers in your dressing room. Then suddenly you're on tour, drying… — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
I suppose if your parents die in their 50s and you are approaching 50, you see that you are definitely not in the first… — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
From the age of 14, I remember thinking I wanted to be a comedian. But that was like saying I wanted to be an… — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
Going on stage is a performance, it's an act; you're playing a version of yourself. I don't give it a lot of thought. I… — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image