David Walliams Quotes

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

David Walliams

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• Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Single
  • Brave

• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Playing

• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • You
  • Know
  • Interview

• I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Happy
  • Guy

• I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • People
  • Know
  • Hand

• My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Win
  • Give
  • Target

• Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Music
  • Live
  • Money

• I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Good
  • Different
  • Think

• Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Different
  • Song
  • Way

• The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Experience
  • Nice
  • Bonus

• I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Home
  • House

• My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Young
  • Danger

• So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Food
  • Favorite

• My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Father
  • Day
  • Moment

• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Danger

• Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Feel
  • Say

• Audition is the worst thing. It's like cleaning furniture in a department store.

  

  Udo Kier
  • Cleaning

• Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

  

  William Blake
  • Persuasion

• I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Life
  • Work
  • Fear

• What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Responsibility
  • Service
  • Gratitude

• I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

  

  David Walliams
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Football