Matt Lucas Quotes
If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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It's actually kind of cool that women have taken to me. Because now I have a whole different demographic when it comes to the audiences. I have women who come out and support my movies, and that is a huge demographic for me, which is great because some actors don't have a female base at all.
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When people say 'Charlie Chaplin' I still think now of the guy in the moustache and bowler hat and funny walk - I don't think of an old man who was my grandfather.
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Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire...
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You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.
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If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.
