Aisling Bea Quotes

Aisling Bea

Profession : Actress

Birth : March 16, 1984

You can't fake comedy. You can't make it look beautiful or put an interesting bit of music on in the background: funny can only be funny if you're funny.

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When you see people getting involved in Comic Relief, especially in tough times or times of recession, that's very positive.

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In karaoke, you don't choose the song; the song chooses you.

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Put everything into it if you're asking people to part with money for it. That's the way I feel about it.

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I've got a short torso and long legs, so I tend to wear longer tops and things that sit on my hips.

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Some people admire the aspirational rock star figures whose biopics make it to TV, the people they watched as kids and made them want to play football for England. For some comics, it is often the Doug Stanhopes and the Joan Rivers.

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Things are only daunting if they are very far away from your main skillset.

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I grew up in rural Ireland; we only had a few TV channels and had never even heard of sketch shows, but it was completely natural for me to tell jokes and stories.

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Northern Irish people tend to have this sharp, dark sense of humour.

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I had a bad break up at university - you know, when your heart breaks for the very first time, and you think, 'I must leave this island,' as if it had never happened to anyone before. I said 'OK, I'll go to England,' and it was the best decision I ever made.

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I went to see Billy Connolly do two hours with no break at the Apollo, with Parkinson's disease, during the winter, and it was one of the most important gigs I have seen in my life.

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Those two years at drama school were nutty and weird. I didn't love it at all - I loved my class; I have so many great friends from that time - but I learned less. I just learned more of what I didn't like.

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My on-set, keep-warm jacket is a Patagonia, and they make sure the people who make their clothes are paid fairly, along with a load of other great stuff and initiatives. They're a business, but they put their money where their mouth is in terms of caring and responsibility.

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There was a stage in my career, especially with standup, where I felt, because I didn't know why I was doing well, that anyone who would tell me anything; I was sort of like, 'What did they say? Yeah, I'll take that advice.' Now I'm a bit more careful who I choose to listen to.

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Some people get into comedy because they love comedy. Then there are people who have a message and have realised that if they can be funny, maybe people will listen to it. And then there are people like me, who are just addicted to making people laugh.

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Success is never going to come in the way your teenage self sees it.

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Everyone has material about cats, and everyone has material about family and what they think about their government or childhood.

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I've never once in my life had a tan - I'm basically a ghost!

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Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

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It's a difficult thing to be in fashion or popular - it's all so fickle.

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