Greg Davies Quotes

Greg Davies

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 14, 1968

I am often driven by necessity, rather than actually doing things like an adult.

Greg Davies

If you want something badly enough, you go for it.

Greg Davies

I swam for the county when I was 12. You wouldn't think it to look at me now, but I'm as graceful as a seal.

Greg Davies

Kids are great. They are endlessly fascinating and bizarre. But I also think that if I had left them on their own for long enough, one of them would have been eaten.

Greg Davies

'Taskmaster' taps into a universal humour of people making a fool of themselves.

Greg Davies

One day I woke up, had an early mid-life crisis, and decided it all had to change. I went and did Logan Murray's comedy course for 11 weeks and then started sneakily doing open-spot gigs, and that was it.

Greg Davies

I don't know why comedians moan about touring; you get driven to a town, stay in a hotel, work for an hour and a half with nice people, and eat fatty service station food. There's nothing not to like.

Greg Davies

I try and make myself or consenting people I am very close to the victims of my comedy. I don't enjoy bullying masquerading as comedy.

Greg Davies

I got to the stage where I physically couldn't carry on unless I gave comedy a go: it was necessity.

Greg Davies

Carla Lane's 'Butterflies' seemed to be on in our house at all times when I was a kid, as did 'The Good Life.' But it was 'Fawlty Towers that made me really sit up for the first time. Basil's incandescent rage made me howl.

Greg Davies

As anyone who's done any acting will tell you, if you haven't got a malicious evil streak, it's such a joy to let one out.

Greg Davies

When I was 17, my dad was teaching in the States. He hired an A-Team-style van, and we drove all over. My resounding memory of it was that we saw all these wonderful places but that my sister and I were being horrible, sulky teenagers.

Greg Davies

I don't watch an awful lot of television. It's a very strange thing, and I don't know a lot of people who work in telly who watch a lot of it.

Greg Davies

One of my friend calls me 'lost to showbiz', but that's only because I don't go for a drink as often as he'd like, because I'm always working. I've met very few famous people who are lost to showbiz - I have met some, mind.

Greg Davies

Some of my friends in this business have received awful online abuse, but I've so far pretty much avoided it - and I've largely avoided meeting hideous people in the street. Most people tend to be charming.

Greg Davies

I'm really not comfortable talking about my personal life.

Greg Davies

When I've mentioned my screen wife is Helen Baxendale, so many people have burst out laughing. My self-esteem has been crushed by it.

Greg Davies

I'm 6ft 8in, so I feel like I've got full body thrombosis about five hours in if I'm flying in economy.

Greg Davies

It often occurs to me that this is a strange way to make a living. But it's wonderful, too. There are many ways to read maturity, and I'm not fighting the instinct to simply enjoy that kind of nonsense. I love that someone would pay me to draw on somebody else's bottom.

Greg Davies

I would spend a lot of time setting up an accident scene where it appeared that I had seriously hurt myself - hedge-cutter, ketchup, that sort of thing. When my sister happened upon the scene of horror, I would lift my head and pathetically plead for her to 'get Mum'.

Greg Davies