Matt Lucas Quotes

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages.

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

What fun is life without a bit of showing off?

People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can't do that everyone else can. I can do funny voices and funny faces but I can't drive.

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.

If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.

Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.

I think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest.

I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.

If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress!

I am a bit of a daydreamer.

I'm just glad that on a budget like this I don't have to make any of those hard decisions because I feel it must be a real job to direct this, as there's so much going on.

I don't expect to be thin, but I'd like to feel a bit healthier.

You wouldn't know how to perform a sketch that you don't find funny. You just couldn't do it.

You have to get rid of characters to make room for new ones, but you also have to recognize when things are done.