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“I'm so scared when I'm not performing.”
“In England, we're brought up to think 'don't get too big for your boots.' We prize modesty. I'd never fly into Heathrow and say, 'Out of my way, don't you know who I am?'”
“I fear everything. Darkness, light, fear of insecurity, fear of women, fear of conversation.”
“I'm not very comfortable with meself. Is anyone? You walk into a store and there's a whole array of cosmetics, people doing this and that to themselves. So, I'm not sure if anyone is really honest with themselves.”
“I've always been a slightly edgy and nervous bloke.”
“Yeah, we toured the Orkneys once. In a tiny biplane which they shot out of a catapult. And then we got off the plane. I've never known cold and wind like it. Everything's got fur. Even the cows have long hair and beards. And we're thinking, 'We've got to do a gig here.' But it was great. The people just wanted to have a good time.”
“My father is passionately Welsh, he had it drilled into him as a kid. They're very proud of their flag and their rugby team and their singing.”
“I accept who I am. I know my place in society. I'm just a pleb havin' a go.”
“I went to art college for two years and I absolutely loved it. I was this shy, kind of fuzzy-haired idiot from a council estate - and to some extent I still am.”
“It was very easy to say to a white middle-class audience, 'What about Thatcher?' and get a reaction.”
“If you let it, show-business can take over your life and permeates into your family. Your persona on stage becomes part of your house. I've learnt not to do that.”
“I've done every kind of student gig going, where you get beat up, spat out, chucked out, and your car nicked. Working on a film is like a bonus. You get dinner, and you get to work with some very interesting people.”
“I'm not confident with myself.”
“In our house I'm not Lee Evans the comic, I'm just a dad and my wife's husband.”
“My comedy is about nothing. I do it because I feel less inadequate on stage moving about than I do off stage standing still.”
“I just want to be really good at doing stand up.”
“I was bullied everywhere I went by the kids, by the teachers. I never knew exactly why. It was probably because I was an easy target, I had a weird, funny face and I hardly ever spoke.”
“Not on the outside, but at home I do. I get very gloomy and dark, very deep and depressed. Everyone does sometimes, don't they?”
“When I'm at home I'm Lee, I take out the rubbish and I take Molly to school in the mornings. When I'm working, I prefer to immerse myself in the material and then pop out the other end - even if it takes months.”
“I've always been me own man and done me own thing, so anyone shouting a loop about the coffee not being hot enough - I just let them get on with it. As long as it doesn't affect me.”