Famous quotes by Jack Dee:
"The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest."
"The film industry is like Anne Robinson - always on the look-out for a new face."
"One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it."
"I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers."
"I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them."
"The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes."
"I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it."
"Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well."
"I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible."
"I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways."
"I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out."
"One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression."
"Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character."
"I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it."
"I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way."
"I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop."
The Oxford Leader
05 Mar 2025
The Oxford Leader
05 Mar 2025