Rik Mayall Quotes

#1. I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad.

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#2. With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.

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#3. On stage you can group 200 people together and scare them or embarrass them or whatever. You can't do that on TV. You have to use the conventions, that's why Kevin (Turvey) works so well.

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#4. I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

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#5. When you're an experienced celeb - which I am - you sometimes just need a bit of space, when you're not 'on'. I'm always on!

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#6. I don't want people to know who I am.

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#7. I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.

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#8. I've always had live audiences.

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#9. I'm frightened of interviews.

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#10. Love is the answer.

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#11. I ought to be groovy and be able to say the enemy is this and the enemy is that ... but I've never been very good at ... I don't want to have to answer questions I don't know the answer to properly. I have an opinion.

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#12. Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you.

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#13. You perform for a different audience each night. People who don't understand just think that you go out there every night and do the same thing, but you don't - you have to find out who they are and give it to them.

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#14. I don't have moments of weakness. I'm Rik Mayall.

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#15. It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say.

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#16. Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.

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#17. With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best.

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#18. I live on the limit, Vyvyan. The limit, because I'm a rider at the gates of dawn and I take no prisoners!

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#19. I was in a coma for five days - I was dead longer than Jesus before he was raised from the dead.

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