A biography for Jamie Demetriouhasn’t been written yet.
“I know it's considered smug to even mention that you've left a social media platform.”
“I wanted to go to drama school really badly, but I'd never been to a theatre. I had no knowledge of Shakespeare. Never been in that world. I was just deeply unprepared for something that I really wanted.”
“My mom and dad took my sister to this farm that had emus when she was like three, and she was waving at the emu and my dad was like, 'Oh!' and just picked her up and put her in the cage - lifted her over the thing, and my mom had to drag her out.”
“Even with a character you dislike, you should sympathise.”
“Flat' is an inherently British, mundane word - it's onomatopoeia.”
“Mare of Easttown' knocked my socks off.”
“There is nothing I find funnier in the world than people smelling really badly. So my dream is an hour a week of something about some people who stink and people responding to that really badly. I think it could be a massive hit. The new 'Gogglebox.' It'll be called 'Common Scents.'”
“I think my parents are both very funny in their own right. Sometimes intentionally, and sometimes not which tends to be the case with most families.”
“I have 'Popstars' on DVD, and me and my sisters and my friends watch it religiously.”
“There is a duality with Stath, which is that he probably wishes he was an English gentleman deep down - but he is simultaneously really proud of being Greek. I don't think he knows what either of those identities mean.”
“I remember knowing it was a bad idea, but I loved the Spice Girls and I kinda confused that love for wanting to be them. My mum asked me what shoes I wanted and I convinced her that the school would allow me to wear platform Converse. And I was already the tallest kid in school.”
“If you're too focused on the future, you're not focused enough on the task at hand.”
“I'm a worrier.”
“I don't ever want to be financially reliant upon stand-up because it's so pure, and it's something that I can do without worrying about whether or not getting gigs is going to allow me to pay the rent.”
“I'd like to design clothes, even just for myself, because my shape doesn't always lend itself to the things I like.”
“People's eyes are so drawn to Instagram and TikTok; there's a world in which there's a better avenue to enter the industry because people take those people so much more seriously.”
“The opposite of sports is comedy, I guess, in a lot of ways.”
“I think my anxiety is part of what makes me try to create something that I love.”
“Growing up, I didn't relate so much to the Greek side of my family. I love them, but I definitely felt different. I mean, my mum's English, so that's probably a big part of it.”
“I think most people know Stath as a letting agent - as in 'Oh, I've met that letting agent' but people from Barnet and Harringay and those sorts of areas are like, 'Oh, that guy's actually my brother.'”