Top 39 Mangan Quotes

#1. When you've lost a loved one, you realise how grateful you are for any help in those moments, and any scheme that tries to help families during that terrible time gets my backing.

Stephen Mangan

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#2. Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

Dan Mangan

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#3. I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith ... But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with are as important as the parts you play, and that there were lots of interesting people working in film and T.V.

Stephen Mangan

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#4. Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend.

Stephen Mangan

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#5. It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention. Simply discussing how asleep we can be gives credence to the possibility of finding moments of true honest alertness.

Dan Mangan

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#6. I think it's important to accept all the ways that we're absurdly lucky. I'm a white male from a safe city in a wealthy country.

Dan Mangan

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#7. I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.

Stephen Mangan

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#8. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

Stephen Mangan

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#9. I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.

Stephen Mangan

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#10. I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.

Stephen Mangan

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#11. I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

Stephen Mangan

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#12. I used to be so young, how did I get so old?

Dan Mangan

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#13. Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people won't.

Stephen Mangan

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#14. Life is too short when you think of the length of death

Sean Mangan

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#15. HIT is much better than aerobics for fat loss, lean gains, and improvement in insulin sensitivity and metabolic health

P.D. Mangan

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#16. I can watch anything from 1970s West Coast rock to 1990s electro-funk - I don't care.

Stephen Mangan

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#17. I learnt a lot about how to negotiate the camera: everyone had told me an actor doesn't really need to do anything on screen, but I realised that wasn't true. If you do nothing, it's boring.

Stephen Mangan

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#18. Acknowledging the lucky breaks are paramount to enjoying life. Not being defensive about our successes/failures. So, in short.

Dan Mangan

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#19. Theatre's a much less faddish, more sensible world than TV or film.

Stephen Mangan

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#20. In the war between the humans and the robots, the humans had to win. Call me hopeful.

Dan Mangan

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#21. When I later discovered that she (illustrator Faith Jaques) was a compulsive reader who loved to be alone and kept cats because they are the only pets that allow you to be both, my adoration of Jaques and her work could only increase.

Lucy Mangan

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#22. My upbringing is so fundamentally different to my parents'. It must be strange to look at your child who not only speaks with a different accent but has a totally different view of the world.

Stephen Mangan

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#23. I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries.

Stephen Mangan

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#24. I am trying to keep my voice in order. Basically not talking much in the van throughout the day to preserve it, which I'm sure is welcomed by the band.

Dan Mangan

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#25. I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldn't dignify it with the term band - get together and play.

Stephen Mangan

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#26. Getting out on stage and playing music for people feels great when people are cheering for you, that's obviously really exciting. But what's most exciting is the idea that we're all experiencing something that's bigger than us.

Dan Mangan

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#27. I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.

Stephen Mangan

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#28. I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.

Stephen Mangan

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#29. There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

Stephen Mangan

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#30. I miss that moment when you're about to go through the tube turn-style but you put your ticket in the wrong way and then as you're trying to figure out how exactly to get in the damn station you hear a collective sigh of 40 people behind you pissed that you're slowing down the herd.

Dan Mangan

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#31. I don't like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney about me, but when I see it, there is more than a little Donkey from 'Shrek' about me.

Stephen Mangan

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#32. And sometimes you just have to trust that there will be more, sometimes you go through dry spells and you have to assure yourself no no, it's gonna be fine. There's gonna be more songs, it's all good.

Dan Mangan

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#33. My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.

Stephen Mangan

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#34. I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types.

Stephen Mangan

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#35. My mother was gentle and warm. She was the sort of person you could really open up to. I was the eldest and her only boy, so I guess I was treated differently. She did bring me up as a Catholic, and at one time I was an altar boy, but I lost my faith, as did my father, when my mother died at 45.

Stephen Mangan

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#36. If you want those around you to accept God and His many gifts, first accept His love for you. Then help build an environment of love wherever you go.

David Mangan

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#37. I feel like songwriting changed from something that I liked doing to something that, I feel, is a very important outlet for me to digest all the things around me. Once I put thoughts into a song, I can let it go, it doesn't bug me anymore you know what I mean? It's kind of a catharsis.

Dan Mangan

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#38. I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

Dan Mangan

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#39. When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.

Stephen Mangan

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