Limmy Quotes

Limmy

Profession : Comedian

Birth : October 20, 1974

I'm just someone who likes making lots of things up and trying to be funny. That's about it.

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I don't drink anymore, I don't go up the town and I'm not interested in events and parties.

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Being in somebody else's thing and saying their words and not having any right to change it - I don't know how I'd deal with that. I'd like to think I could do it, but I just know I've got a dead particular taste.

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I don't feel comfortable calling myself a writer or a director or an actor.

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I like some of my stuff not to be particularly funny. It's supposed to be amusing, entertaining or thought-provoking, like a curiosity. If you put it on in front of 500 people in the Odeon they wouldn't laugh. They shouldn't laugh.

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I'm always checking other people's opinions.

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If you run about trying to make people like you all the time you'd never get anything done.

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I would rather there's somebody who is just a wee bit down in the dumps believing that they've got depression and going to the doctor and getting it checked out, than not, I'd rather that everybody was given the benefit of the doubt.

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I've always had something a wee bit up with me, but I think it's some kind of learning difficulty. It's always been something.

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For me, in my mind personally and privately, there are no limits to comedy.

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In my own mind, I can joke about anything.

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A guy playing pool in a pub once said to me that they should put me on the telly. It went in one ear and out the other. But then I started thinking about it. I wondered how it all worked, did you have to be best mates with someone at the BBC who you went to uni with in Oxford?

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People say 'Limmy's Show' is kind of hit or miss, but I'd rather that than having something generally likable.

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The word 'cult' is almost a nice way of saying a lot of people hate you, or have never heard of you. It means someone can come up to me in the street who's really into my stuff, who's seen everything I've done, but the guy standing beside them has no idea who I am. Even in Glasgow. I think that's cult.

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Doctors are just people and they can make mistakes.

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I felt I was a bit switched off for years, not really caring about things. I don't know if that's depression or whatever, but I was thinking 'I might. Aye I will. No, I willnae' as far as getting a second series goes.

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I've said things on Twitter that I've said deliberately because I think they're out of order, I think that's the sense of humour that I've got. I like saying things that I think are terrible, because it gives me a buzz.

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When I was wee, in the middle of the summer, the big field behind the shops would be filled with dry grass and I'd get a box of matches. You chuck one match on that and the whole thing goes up in flames. Twitter's a bit like that. You can just say one thing and it explodes from there.

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I think I called myself an entertainer on my son's birth certificate. That sounds a bit Sammy Davis Jr. or Brian Conley, the sort of guy you just drop into a room and let them 'entertain.'

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People say what they think online because it's not to your face. That's a good thing. You don't really want people just being nice to you with their opinions.

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