Harry Enfield Quotes

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Harry Enfield

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 30, 1961

I've got three very expensive kids and I had to buy a house in Notting Hill.

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Why would you be a sell-out for making money out of what you can do?

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I was happy just being at home looking after the kids. There was always plenty to do, and I didn't feel like doing any telly.

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No, I can't write a novel. I don't have a story.

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I can't write a sitcom.

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One has to get a slagging once in a while.

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If people like you, and you disappoint them, they get very hurt by it.

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People are much more vicious about comedy than about anything else. If it's drama they go: 'Oh well, that didn't really work.' But comedy, they get angry. And people who never thought you were ever very funny go: 'Fantastic, we can really have a go now. Great!

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I don't want my kids talked about. It's one of the reasons I thought that if I could just make a go of being a writer, that would be good, because I don't really want my kids growing up with me famous.

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Most of my characters are silly little boys. It's human. Everyone is badly behaved.

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When I come up with a character, I know how he lives and breathes.

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At the end of every series, I think I won't do any more. But as long as I can think of fresh stuff, I can keep going.

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I'd like to play a larger-than-life character done straight, like Clouseau. To move away from Dick Emery and towards Peter Sellers.

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I've had my own comedy series on telly and I know the truth about politics.

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I was once asked to be a guest presenter on 'The Big Breakfast' for a week while Chris Evans was away, but I said no as I knew I'd be hopeless. If they asked me to guest present the 'Today' programme on Radio 4, however, I'd jump at the chance.

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When you join the wonderful world of showbiz, you quickly find yourself meeting all sorts of famous people.

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I've had dinner with two Beatles and a Rolling Stone;I've said 'hello' to Whitney Houston and shared a cab with Larry Adler.

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When I was 15 my great Aunt Nancy gave me a book of Alan Bennett plays, and I thought he was the bees knees.

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Why don't men become primary teachers? Partly, I suppose, because the pay is so insulting; but then it is for all teachers, as the state seems to consider the manufacture of adults less important than the manufacture of just about anything else.

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All children try to manipulate their parents, but their tactics are different, and women seem better able to cope with the tactics of girls than of boys.

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