Harry Enfield Quotes

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Harry Enfield

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 30, 1961

My grandmother had a couple of strange books published by the Woolfs. I didn't know her - she was dead by the time I was born. But I knew my grandfather. He was lovely.

Harry Enfield

Writing scripts is fine because you get through a page quickly. But writing words just reminds me of school. To me a novel would be like writing a 300-page essay.

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I'm a legend. Me and Vauxhall Astras. We're legends.

Harry Enfield

All my big success has happened since I worked with Paul. I've worked with other people and alone, but I've enjoyed myself more and worked best with him. If he became big-headed that would be fatal, because I'm the bighead in our relationship, and I bully him over work.

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Someone said that the good thing about my TV programme was that it had so many tics, which I think are the subtle little touches of originality that Paul brings to it.

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Our sense of humour is complementary. I'm populist; and Paul's more sophisticated.

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Sometimes I have really good ideas, but it is always Paul's language that makes them work. Without him I'd be more clinical, more mundane. What I achieve with him is different to any thing I could ever hope to achieve with any one else.

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Comedians are like pop bands. When you're young, you have ruddy principles and don't do old stuff because you don't want to take away the purity of youth. But then as you get older, you look at The Rolling Stones and see what fun they have.

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As a teenager I was pretty horrible.

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I was a nice child.

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I hated everything but punk for a long time.

Harry Enfield

In the early '80s when I came to London, I didn't like opera. I didn't know anything about it.

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When I saw 'The Office' I thought, 'That's it for our type of humour. This has changed comedy for ever.' I loved it.

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You can be a bit more naughty with a live show.

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There's nothing nicer than a wicked bad person in a story is there? It's fun.

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With three of my own children, I have witnessed first-hand the vital role reading has played as part of their childhood and I am passionate that all children learn the skills they need to experience the joy of a good book.

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I used to watch a lot of afternoon TV. I started imitating the movies then.

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People were always saying, 'are you going to do a film of any of the characters in the TV show.' The only ones that were appropriate were Kevin and Perry. There's a precedent with 'Wayne's World' and the 'Bill And Ted' films.

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I tried for about a year to write a teenage character until I finally got the phrase 'he has lost the power of rational thought and the use of his arms.' Everything else came from that.

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God knows what the Yanks will make of 'Kevin and Perry.' It's totally gross to them because we don't look like we're off 'Dawson's Creek' or whatever. They'll think we're really weird.

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