Harry Enfield Quotes

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Harry Enfield

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 30, 1961

In the 1970s the government propped up managers who couldn't run their industries properly. Nowadays they prop up our lousy managers who can't run our services properly.

Harry Enfield

It's good fun making commercials because you are picked up in a posh car and pampered all day by your personal pamperer, or 'runner' as they are known in the business.

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About once a month, our local church would have an evening Folk Mass, and my mother would drag us along because she saw that the ghastly creatures who sung on these occasions strummed guitars, and she associated all guitar strumming with pop music.

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If religion bends to society's whims, like Peter Tatchell himself, it ceases to be religious, so what's the point?

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Like most lapsed Catholics, I will probably return to the fold when I start to fear death.

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My own schooldays convince me that I would not send a child of mine to be educated by a grinning monk any more than I would send him to a mullah in Iran.

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Boys are strange creatures.

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I've been deeply involved in writing garbage since I was 16.

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The danger of being in fashion is that one day you'll be out of fashion.

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You're cutting off your nose to spite your face if you try to be self-consciously cutting-edge.

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I've never felt cutting-edge. Maybe Loadsamoney was for a few months, but after that I've just done family stuff.

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What Paul and I do is not fashionable - it's a load of silly characters mucking about.

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The Slobs were written in a very 2D way, but Kathy Burke brought a touching quality to all her characters.

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I don't think I know anyone who would go around going, 'That's a good idea for a gag.'

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As I get older and skinnier people recognise me much less.

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There's no easy way to lose weight.

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I don't mind what the critics say, but I don't generally read them. I'm more concerned with viewing figures.

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Everyone's come up against a snob or a know-all.

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I don't believe in Tony Blair.

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If you were going to compare me to a car, I'd be very flattered to be compared to a Vauxhall Astra. Rowan Atkinson would be a Ferrari, I suppose. Or maybe that's Steve Coogan. And Rowan would be an Aston Martin. He's a bit classier than a Ferrari. Or Hugh Grant would be a Ferrari. And I'd be a Vauxhall Astra. That suits me down to the ground.

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