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Johnny Vegas

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    Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.

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    Being 'Johnny' was almost like an out of body experience. I thought he was just a character that I'd created and could quite easily step away from, but it was much more difficult than that.

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    Class still matters in Britain today.

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    Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.

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    Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!

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    Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

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    I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show.

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    I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.

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    I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

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    I avoid any kind of organised trips as that's one of my bugbears.

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    I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

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    I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.

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    If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it.

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    I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!

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    I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up.

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    I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.

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    I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.

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    I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

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    I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.

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    I think if you're at the point where you're popular enough to sell your wedding photos to OK! Magazine then you don't need the money.

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    I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.

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    I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors, but to a young live-comedy audience you're not, really.

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    It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.

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    I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.

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    It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend.

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    I used to attract a lot of feeders. I'd be quite happy to be locked in someone's flat and fed liquidised burgers.

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    I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.

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    I use very few muscles at the best of times.

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    I've always been looking for other people's approval.

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    I've always said that with kids' TV that people get stuck in it from drama school but that's not fair because I know myself that when you go in creatively, kids are so much more open to ideas. You're so much freer to mess about and try things.

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    I've got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs.

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    I've got my finger in a lot of pies.

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    I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.

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    I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for my memories aged nought to ten are all bound up together in a mesh of innocence and fun.

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    My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!'

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    My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.

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    My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

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    My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.

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    Never try to be witty with U.S. airport officials. It's always lost on them and you'll find yourself being put back on the plane.

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    Some comics are in it for what they can get out of it. Others are in it for a love of comedy. I think those that are in it for a genuine love of comedy find each other within the circuit and become friends.

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    The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.

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    The idea of being on TV 24 hours a day and people seeing the real me... No.

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    The people on the QVC shopping channel convince me that life is worth living. They see the good in everything. People who go to counselling should actually go to a room with a QVC seller for half an hour and let them find the qualities within them. For example, they'd look at me and say, 'To anybody else this looks like a stomach but, actually, his feet never get wet in the rain.

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    There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.

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    There is something more spiritual to us than what we are on this earth, but how you access it I'm not sure.

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    There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.

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    They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.

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    Up North you are holding your own. Everyone considers themselves a comedian.

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    We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves.

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    We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six different types of flu and other unmentionable diseases.