Julian Barratt

“Most stand-up is incredibly boring. It's time for people to do something else.”

“Pain - that is what life is about, isn't it? Suffering with moments of reprieve.”

“I've done interviews in the past where, apparently, I didn't give the journalist any eye contact. I'm a bit shy, yes. I've thought about refusing to do any press at all.”

“I am a man who dreams of culture.”

“Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out.”

“We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?'”

“I'm always trying to do anything between comedy and horror.”

“I liked horror and comedy, basically, from a young age, but I just ended up getting into comedy because there was - I could do stand-up comedy, and that was my way into this business, and then there was no stand-up horror, and I didn't know how to get into that world.”

“With the 'Boosh,' we were trying to do this strange, weird thing that had its own language and visual style, and it wasn't really what the powers that be wanted.”

“Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you're at home but don't work when you shine the light of an audience on them. Great writing and live writing are two separate things.”

“The acting life can be quite scary, really.”

“It's not immediately categorisable. I don't know what to say when anyone asks what the 'Boosh' is.”

“I've got a lot of friends with whom I discuss jazz.”

“It's strange, but something about lack of structure needs a structure itself. Otherwise, after a while, it's like looking at a Rothko painting or a Peter Greenaway film. You think, 'OK, I want to see something else now.'”

“I love 'Airplane,' and I love 'Naked Gun' and all those films, where you're parodying.”

“Sport doesn't do anything for me. And I don't do anything for it.”