Rob Brydon Quotes

#1. If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

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#2. I'm a very, very handsome man, and have had to come to terms with it ... um, do I like the way I look? In the right light, and with a following wind.

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#3. Plus, I've always felt that, if the worst came to the worst in my career, I could always fall back to doing voices on the radio.

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#4. I would have to say my earthy sensuality - although I should point out that the backs of my calves are exemplary and my upper inner thigh is a delight.

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#5. I had a moment where I realised I could do silly voices, that lots of people I knew couldn't do silly voices, and that thus I must be able to make money doing silly voices.

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#6. Hugh Laurie once described how he eventually came to realise that there is not a finite amount of success in the world, and that someone else gaining great success did not necessarily mean that there was now less to go around for everyone else. It's a good thing to remember.

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#7. Sometimes great stuff comes quickly and sometimes it doesn't and you've got to dig in for the long haul, don't loose heart, and wait for something to come along. Which is something you learn the more you do it, that if it isn't coming straight away just hang in there and something will come.

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#8. I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.

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#9. I don't think any of my kids would have a good word to say about me. I think they deny that they even know me. At school, they pretend they are Anton du Beke's kids.

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#10. I still have lots of friends from my pre-success days.

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#11. When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

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#12. I like witty people, people who can be witty on the spot.

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#13. I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

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#14. I just look like someone with a long face. Not just A. P. McCoy himself, but some of the horses he rides.

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#15. The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.

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#16. I do seem to look like a lot of people.

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#17. Terribly sad news about Stuart Cable, such a lovely, warm, funny, talented man.

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#18. Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade.

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#19. There are some people who only know me for cornflakes ads, and that's fine. I have a charmed life.

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#20. I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.

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#21. When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.

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