Adrian Edmondson Quotes

#1. I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.

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#2. Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.

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#3. How insane would it have been to know Chloe in my early twenties? We would have torn this place up, and probably lasted only a weekend. Isn't it amazing how you meet the person you're meant to meet, when you're supposed to meet her?

Christina Lauren

#4. We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.

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#5. I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.

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#6. I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

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#7. I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

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#8. A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

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#9. The point, do whatever it take to approach the Word with a fresh perspective.

Howard G. Hendricks

#10. Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person.

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#11. I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#12. Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

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#13. Lose the dress first next time. So you don't deprive me of the chance to see you naked, again.

Lisa Carlisle

#14. There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

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#15. We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.

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#16. Why stash little ones away in a nursery downstairs with volunteers, who are hard to recruit and who themselves then miss the service, when they can actually be part of God's people in worship? This can make it hard sometimes when children are acting up. But it keeps families together.

Christian Smith

#17. On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

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#18. Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

Fidel Castro

#19. From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.

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#20. I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.

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#21. People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.

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#22. The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.

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#23. You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

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#24. Most modern comedy is crap.

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#25. We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people.

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#26. The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

Alia Shawkat

#27. It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous.

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#28. It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.

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