J Corden Quotes

#1. I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

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#2. I feel a bit like when we came through the doors on the first day of rehearsals of that play, from that minute on, my whole life changed.

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#3. Going to America is the best prize, so fingers crossed it will work out on Broadway.

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#4. You want to see the joy in people, and you want to see the person that always dreamt of being a star, you know? You want to see people having a great time. So Mariah Carey is a huge fan of George Michael.

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#5. It is hard because I love Cornettos, so that will always be a weakness, and I've realised that bread is my nemesis. I believe bread has been sent to destroy me to the core.

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#6. I want to act, I want to write, and I need to follow good directors.

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#7. I wish I didn't like sweets as much as I do. I wish I didn't get carried away sometimes.

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#8. I don't care about awards and all the attention being a 'celebrity' gets you. It's just part of the job.

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#9. People say: 'Oh, but would you be happy for your show to go on BBC3 if it was just online?' If I was sat here telling you I had just signed a huge deal with Netflix you'd be going: 'Wow, that's amazing.' You can't see it as 'Oh, it's no longer a channel because it's not on TV.'

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#10. There's nothing more creative I'll ever do in my career than trying to make an hour of TV everyday.

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#11. It's a strange thing, this idea that for some reason, if a lot of people like what you're doing, it's therefore not very good. We use the phrase that a band have 'sold out.' Just so you know, if you're doing a gig and you sell all your tickets, that is a brilliant thing to do.

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#12. There were a couple of years where I got a bit lost - I went out too much, I was a bit heartbroken, thought I was a bit more of a dude than I really was. I would love to go back and have a strong word with myself.

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#13. Whatever it is, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people. And if that's what you want from a job, then this is the best job you could ever do.

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#14. Fondue is not a good date food. You end up with cheese dripping down your face.

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#15. I've never seen the film 'Gulliver's Travels' - and I'm in it.

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#16. What's important is the work that you're doing, not the country that you're in. I would much rather be in a play at the Royal Court than in Los Angeles making 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.'

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#17. You can either hope and pray you don't get picked on, or you can, in a way, almost make yourself a bigger target, because it's harder to bully something that's really big. It's easy to bully something that's small and frail.

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#18. It's enough now of being unhealthy. I have a family, and I owe it to them to be as healthy as I can. A great sense of clarity comes when you have a child. It shows the important stuff to be important.

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#19. I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.

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#20. BBC3 even started their biggest shows, like Jack Whitehall's 'Bad Education,' they premiered on the iPlayer a week before it went on TV. I think it should always be at the forefront of what is fresh and exciting, and therefore it should be the first channel to exist online.

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#21. To be honest, all I wanted to do, all I ever, ever wanted to do - I just wanted to perform.

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#22. This arrogance thing ... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.

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#23. Rap and dance is pretty much what I want to be known for.

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#24. Funny is funny. And if it's good, it travels.

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#25. I've not met a soul who wants to see The Wanted over One Direction. The thirst for those boys is insane.

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#26. There is really no one who hasn't made mistakes in their career. I'm always shocked that people would be so surprised that I might make mistakes. Martin Scorsese has made mistakes - why can't I?

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#27. I saw Boy George looking amazing, absolutely unbelievable, and messaged him asking for the number of his nutritionist. I got in touch with her, and she put me on this diet plan, working out which foods do and don't suit me. It's not rocket science - basically, don't eat cake, don't eat bread.

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#28. If our show [Carpool Karaoke] shines, then I shine. I don't ever want to come out and make anything about me. I want to make it about them, make them the best that they can be. And the whole thing is a collaboration, those carpools.

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#29. I love hard work. 'One Man, Two Guvnors' was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.

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#30. No one could have predicted on day one of rehearsals, that a year and a half later we would have shot a film and all be living in New York. It was surreal.

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