Angus Deayton Quotes

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Angus Deayton

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 6, 1956

I appear to have had more comebacks than Status Quo.

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I was presenting the Baftas live on BBC1, and as I skipped down the steps on to the stage at the start, I felt my heel clip the edge of the last step. Fortunately there was just a stumble, but one centimetre more and that could have been the most dramatic entrance of any awards host.

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I was just about to sue the BBC for unlawful dismissal when I ran into Michael Foster, Chris Evans's agent, who said never go near the law courts. Especially as an individual against a corporation with limitless funds.

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I never set my sights on being an actor or comedian or presenter.

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When you are in a long-running series you don't look outside it because you don't really need to do much else. When you don't have that you are much more open to offers, like presenting Hell's Kitchen or making a motoring show in Madagascar with Mariella Frostrup.

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I was the youngest of three, so simply copied my older brothers. It made life very easy. We wore the same yellow jumpers that our grandmother knitted, went to the same school, laughed at the same jokes, and supported the same football team.

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The Sun once did 20 things you never knew about Angus Deayton - and I didn't know 16 of them.

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I still listen to Radio 1. I never really matured or progressed to Radio 2 or even Radio 4, like most of my contemporaries.

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People think the end of a relationship is a bad thing, but it can be a natural thing.

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Football is my first love - Man United, not comedy.

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I have had girlfriends, but nothing to go public on. I recently worked out that I have only been single for about six months of my life. Since I was 18 I have gone from one long-term relationship to the next. I am not unhappy.

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When I was five I said I wanted to be either a funny man or on an advert.

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I was away in France, as I was studying French and German, and a friend of mine bumped into a guy called Richard Curtis, who was producing the Oxford Revue that year. Two people had dropped out and he asked me to step in.

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Nostalgia has always been big. I don't think it ever goes away - people enjoy it.

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I fell into presenting after doing about a decade of parody shows of presenter-based shows, and a lot of it was me parodying a presenter, so when I started doing 'Have I Got News For You', I carried on that persona.

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I find it baffling that for years and years I got tremendous stick for the amount of money I earned.

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That's sort of what showbusiness is - a charade. People are basing their assumptions about you on half the facts. The rest of it just isn't true.

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Sir Alex Ferguson is the most impressive person I've met in terms of charisma and achievement.

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I live 300 yards away from my ex and son. I see them all the time. We all went away on safari recently.

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Most of the comedy characters I played have been extensions of my own personality and very similar to Mike Channel. It's a weird eclectic mixture of your genuine character and the character you portray.

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