Julian Barratt Quotes

Julian Barratt

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 4, 1968

I was in a band called Groove Solution. Because there was a groove crisis, and we solved it.

Julian Barratt

Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it.

Julian Barratt

I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred.

Julian Barratt

This business is ephemeral, and you have to maintain a healthy cynicism about it. There's a 'flavour of the month' aspect to it, so you have to keep moving on and mutating.

Julian Barratt

I've done interviews in the past where, apparently, I didn't give the journalist any eye contact. I'm a bit shy, yes. I've thought about refusing to do any press at all.

Julian Barratt

For me, there's no dichotomy between being shy or a performer, because I think it's more a way of slightly presenting a version of things to the world.

Julian Barratt

The profession is rife with fear about your age, about your validly, longevity, appearance. It's vanity, and it's hard to sort of avoid all those things; they come at you as an actor.

Julian Barratt

In comedy terms, usually when the weather's bad, it goes much better. When it's sunny, people don't come to see comedy gigs because they're all really happy and don't need cheering up.

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We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?'

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I miss quite major cultural signposts quite often.

Julian Barratt

When you're really laughing, you feel like a little kid, and nothing matters.

Julian Barratt

I ran off stage at my first gig. Halfway through it, I forgot my lines and didn't know what to do, so I just ran out of the building down towards a lake. I was going to throw myself in, but the compere came out and said, 'No, it's going well, come back and finish the gig!'

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The secret of comedy is don't grow up. That's why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up.

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We used to have to convince people we were funny, and it didn't always work.

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Sport doesn't do anything for me. And I don't do anything for it.

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I am a man who dreams of culture.

Julian Barratt

We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.

Julian Barratt

People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to Monty Python and Vic Reeves. We're not like Ricky Gervais's hyper-real cringe comedy. We're at the other end of the scale, but there's room for the sillier stuff, too.

Julian Barratt

It's good to give people a jolt. If they're expecting one thing, it's important to give them something else. If you do something startling, audiences might at first freak out, but then they start to think, 'This is not going to be conventional. I'm going to enjoy this.'

Julian Barratt

Most stand-up is incredibly boring. It's time for people to do something else.

Julian Barratt