Rik Mayall Quotes
When you're an experienced celeb - which I am - you sometimes just need a bit of space, when you're not 'on'. I'm always on!
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
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You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
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Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'
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The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
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Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutations patients have in common, they come up empty.
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I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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She was the people's princess and that is how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and our memories for ever.
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When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
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When you're an experienced celeb - which I am - you sometimes just need a bit of space, when you're not 'on'. I'm always on!
