Brydon Quotes

#1. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface.

Randy Pausch

#2. 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.

Rob Brydon

#3. 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.

Rob Brydon

#4. Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible.

Maureen Stapleton

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

Rob Brydon

#6. Art is more like real estate than stocks. Some Warhols are like studio apartments in midblock buildings with northern exposures, while other Warhols are penthouse properties with 360-degree views. A share of Cisco, however, is always just a share of Cisco. Judging

Sarah Thornton

#7. 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.

Rob Brydon

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

Rob Brydon

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

Rob Brydon

#10. 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.

Rob Brydon

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

Rob Brydon

#12. 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.

Rob Brydon

#13. Valentine cards and birthday wishes?
Please ... be on another level of planning, of understanding
The bond between man and woman and child.
The highest elevation, cause we above
All that romance crap, just show your love.

Method Man

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

Rob Brydon

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

Rob Brydon

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

Rob Brydon

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

Rob Brydon

#18. In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.

Linus Pauling

#19. 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.

Rob Brydon

#20. For those who use their intelligence and their study as a weapon, the Rosary is most effective. Because that apparently monotonous way of beseeching Our Lady as children do their Mother, can destroy every seed of vainglory and pride.

Josemaria Escriva

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

Rob Brydon

#22. 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.

Rob Brydon

#23. 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.

Rob Brydon

#24. Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: 'We got through another night!'

Enid Bagnold

#25. 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.

Rob Brydon

#26. To be strong, independent and still thoroughly enjoy a man who takes charge in the bedroom...

B. Buena

#27. 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.

Rob Brydon

#28. Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

John Bradshaw

#29. Whether it's good for anything or not, cool or totally uncool, in the final analysis what's most important is what you can't see but can feel in your heart.

Haruki Murakami

#30. Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.

Jack London

#31. 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.

Rob Brydon

#32. 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.

Rob Brydon