Greg Davies Quotes

Greg Davies

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 14, 1968

I love what I'm doing and will continue to do it, and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

Greg Davies

I wasn't a happy teacher, but I also wasn't an absolute psychopath like the teachers I portray on screen.

Greg Davies

Every time I wrote a school scene, I thought of that drama studio, because that's where I was a bit lost at sea.

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I came into comedy to make people laugh. If the fact that I can't stop eating Hobnobs in any way helps, I'm happy to celebrate that.

Greg Davies

I frequently meet ex-pupils who seem to think I didn't totally ruin their educations, so that's something.

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My favourite place in Britain is... my home county of Shropshire. I think it's one of the most beautiful places in the world.

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I was scarred in 1977 by watching Jaws, and I've never got over it.

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There is nothing bad about this job. Comedians have nothing to complain about. That doesn't mean I'm not constantly moaning and worrying.

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I would say the more significant factor of my starting late is that I developed a sufficiently thick skin to be able to - just about - handle the knocks that a fledgling comedian takes.

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'Man Down' is not a serious study of the human condition: it is a balls-out attempt at making people laugh. So nobody in the show can afford to cling on to any vanity, because we're always going to push the humiliation levels.

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Our family were very quick to laugh at each other.

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I rather like finding out instantly whether you've been successful or not. It's a cliche, really, but the fact is that every gig is different: it's a live event, and you're with a different group of individuals every night.

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The state of the world petrifies me as much as it does everyone else at the moment. Anyone who comes to my show expecting incisive political analysis will be deeply disappointed.

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I have a terrible work ethic. The best way for me to do anything in life is for someone to say, 'You need to do this by this time, or you're in trouble'.

Greg Davies

If you're doing a job, and you secretly want to do a different job, you start to blame the job. I was blaming the teaching for that fact I wasn't performing. I really felt I needed to follow a comedy career.

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My dad always told me that, as far as he's concerned, I can do whatever I choose in life as long as I'm happy and can handle the consequences of bad decisions. He only ever said that when he thought I was doing the wrong thing. I would employ similar passive aggression.

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I once bought some enormous fireworks that were literally the size of sticks of dynamite. We would go into the field behind our house, slide them into the biggest cow pats we could find, and blow them sky high. It was exhilarating and, for the cows, incredibly confusing.

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In my 20s and early 30s, I was very much a man lost at sea, with very little direction in life, and painfully immature.

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I can't remember the last time I can say I felt truly unwound.

Greg Davies

I think the main thing I'd bring to Chewbacca is middle-aged spread. Chewbacca has looked after himself.

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