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.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Me
  • Liberty
  • Members

• I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Seen

• Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Life
  • Long
  • Hair

• Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • World
  • Child

• 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.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Thought

• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Good
  • Composer
  • Imitate

• Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Reality
  • Performance

• Politics is largely a matter of heart.

  

  R. A. Butler
  • Heart
  • Politics
  • Matter

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Up
  • Great
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Time
  • Long
  • Painting

• 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.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • True
  • Career

• 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.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • Positive
  • Emotional

• 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.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Character
  • Me
  • Better

• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Drama

• 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.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • Great
  • Different
  • Women

• For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Me
  • Like

• Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Up
  • Different
  • Character

• Salt is a preservative. It really holds flavor. For example, if you chop up some fresh herbs, or even just garlic, the salt will extract the moisture and preserve the flavor.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Up
  • You
  • Example

• If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Journalism
  • Pages
  • Literacy

• When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.

  

  Rain
  • Work
  • Want
  • Hero

• 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.

  

  Matt Lucas
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