A biography for Johnny Vegashasn’t been written yet.
“Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.”
“I've been offered all the reality TV shows but have turned them down. If I did it as 'Johnny,' there'd be no jungle left! It was really hard regaining control of myself, so I am reluctant to let 'Johnny' back out of the box.”
“I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.”
“I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience. But I also know it's enriched my life, my dad being a Catholic.”
“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.”
“Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!”
“Class still matters in Britain today.”
“Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.”
“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.”
“You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.”
“I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.”
“I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.”
“I use very few muscles at the best of times.”
“There is something more spiritual to us than what we are on this earth, but how you access it I'm not sure.”
“For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.”
“'Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me.”
“In credits, I'm 'Michael' sometimes now, but people know you as something, so there's no point fighting it. 'Squiggle,' you'll always be 'Prince,' and 'The Rock,' just accept it. I want to move on, but not that much. So I'm still known as 'Johnny Vegas.'”
“You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.”
“I don't want to demonise 'Johnny.' I was really proud of what he achieved. Especially within stand-up. He was quite a unique voice. I will always possibly be trading off 'Johnny's name, but there's a lot more things that I'm able to do now - the strengths that 'Michael' can bring to it.”
“I've got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs.”