Alan Carr Quotes

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Alan Carr

Profession : Comedian

Birth : June 14, 1976

I'm a little bit naughty, not too rude and a little bit saucy. That's what I love about Chatty Man - I can just be that on my own show.

Alan Carr

I mean, I see the old interviews with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford, these characters clawed their way up - what stories.

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With Stand Up To Cancer, every penny goes to Cancer Research UK. You are playing with people's lives. I knew I needed to get as much money as possible.

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I didn't want a ghost writer. I've got such a distinctive voice, people would smell a rat, I think.

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My mum will never ask if I'm seeing anyone; I'm not that kind of person anyway. I'm very private.

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I'm a comedian. I can't get a spray tan. I can't get a weave. I can't get my teeth done. Can you imagine if I came out on stage looking really hunky? Comedy doesn't work like that.

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It sounds like I work at Hallmark, but every day is a journey and you get better and that's the whole point of life.

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Nostalgia is so powerful, and it was such an odd year, 2020.

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Everyone was a footballer in my family. My grandfather Wilf played for Newcastle and my cousins play. It's in the blood.

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I was such a worrier at school. I wish I could go back and tell myself to stop stressing.

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I mean, seeing 10 very talented interior designers is not hard work - it's an absolute joy.

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Obviously there are a lot of charities out there but with cancer you have to be lucky to have not been affected by it or not know anybody who has had it.

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I think I have got a lot better as an interviewer. I let people talk now which is something you need to do. At the beginning I thought jokes, jokes, jokes, I am a stand up comedian but I think I have mellowed out now.

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I don't really like being a celebrity.

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I love the buzz of doing live. I am a stand-up comedian and so I am not scared of live.

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I'm just a comedian. That's all I am. If you find me funny, good.

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I think TV in general is camp. 'X Factor' is camp, 'Strictly Come Dancing' is camp. Basically, an orange man comes down some stairs and waves at the camera. People are drawn to that.

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I love a bit of 'Tipping Point'; I sit there and sometimes the dog starts watching it. It's just like the going in and out and the coins falling, it can be quite trance-like.

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I don't like the attention that comes with TV.

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Basically, I thought I had nothing to lose so I'd try my luck as a stand-up comedian. So even if it all failed, I was at the bottom of the food-chain anyway.

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