Mathew Horne Quotes

Mathew Horne

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 6, 1978

My dad's a lifelong Notts County fan, but it didn't cross my mind to support his team, and I still feel bad about it. I'm a Tottenham fan because of a 1986 Panini sticker album.

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My first relationship at 15 made me really, really mature because it was so destructive and intense. We were inseparable for three years and I was completely and utterly besotted. But then it all fell apart and it took me a long time to get over it.

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I played in goal for Notts County juniors. I liked that sense that goalkeepers were outsiders, mavericks. But I stopped when I realised I wasn't going to grow any more. I'm 5ft 7ins so I couldn't have been a professional.

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No, I'm far too selfish to have a child. Also, I couldn't bear to have an ugly child. I'd have to be 100 per cent sure that the girl I had a child with was good-looking. You can never tell because you don't know what's going on while it's being fermented. You'd have to do a lot of research to check that they didn't have ugly genes.

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I'm quite ritualistic about my preparation. I always shower before a show, even if I had one before leaving my flat.

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Budapest was very beautiful and spending the day under a canopy of Hungarian trees, on horseback, was fantastic.

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Elves, Eskimos and aliens are the type of girls I am attracted to. I've been going out with my current girlfriend for a year. She looks like a cross between an elf, an Eskimo and an alien, with a bowl haircut and little thin legs.

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I wanted to be a prosthetic makeup artist after watching 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'.

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I feel most relaxed when I am acting or writing.

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I go to bed at 9.30pm and listen to Radio 4.

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I wore a dress as a child for six months and I wouldn't take it off. I was three. I've seen the pictures.

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A sketch show by its very nature is hit and miss.

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My upbringing was very basic working-class on the outskirts of Nottingham. My mother, Glenis, was a nursery nurse, looking after special-needs children, and my father, Brian, became the manager of a lace factory after working his way up as an apprentice.

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The first time I ever met posh people was when I went to Manchester University to study drama, but I couldn't care less about people's backgrounds - it's all down to the individual.

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I was nine when I started getting laughs in a school comedy sketch one day, and acting became all I wanted to do. I'm sure my career choice was difficult for my parents: they would have had the usual parental neurosis about how tumultuous the business can be, with lots of actors out of work.

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I can't remember a Christmas where I didn't have a rotten cold, and I always get one about two weeks into a job. I definitely get man flu - I'm not brave at all.

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If I wake up after eight hours it's right; after nine I'm groggy.

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Most dressing rooms are sterile and they feel like someone else's space. But over two weeks of previews, before the show officially opens, they transform - filling up with cards, flowers, home comforts.

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A dressing room is both a personal space and a workspace. It changes with the flick of a switch: turn on the relay - the speaker linked to microphones in the auditorium - and you're at work; when that's off, it's your sanctuary.

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Whenever I am not filming and not required to travel with work, I spend all my downtime in Scotland.

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