Alan Davies Quotes

#1. I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.

Alan Davies

#2. I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

Alan Davies

#3. I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

Alan Davies

#4. There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.

Alan Davies

#5. I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

Alan Davies

#6. I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

Alan Davies

#7. A bambiraptor is a savage baby dear.

Alan Davies

#8. I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

Alan Davies

#9. A foolproof plan for not getting a job - show up for your interview wearing flip flops.

Alan Davies

#10. After millions of years of evolution, we start stupid cults of celebrity and feed the egos of maniacs until they take our money, fuck us in the arse, and then cut our throats. We should be cutting their throats!

Adam Nevill

#11. I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

Lykke Li

#12. The one I remember is going into London, as it was for us in Essex, on New Year's Eve in 1981. There were four of us and we'd had a few lagers on the way. One of my mates threw up in the Tube and then stood up and fell over in it. We thought it was the funniest thing we'd ever seen.

Alan Davies

#13. The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.

Alan Davies

#14. The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in.

Alan Davies

#15. To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

Nancy Friday

#16. My favourite restaurant is the Thai Corner Cafe on St Paul's Road. We go there all the time. I shouldn't really mention it - I don't want it to be chock-a-block.

Alan Davies

#17. They all believed that ideas are not "out there" waiting to be discovered, but are tools - like forks and knives and microchips - that people devise to cope with the world in which they find themselves.

Louis Menand

#18. I was hugely disappointed that 'Whites' was cancelled.

Alan Davies

#19. I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

Alan Davies

#20. I could tell you it was a Jean Valjean sort of stay and you would think it was romantic.

Kristin Hannah