Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Angus Deayton

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Gordon Angus Deayton is an English actor, writer, musician, comedian, and broadcaster. He was the original presenter of the satirical panel game Have I Got News for You and the host of British panel show Would I Lie to You? from 2007 to 2008, and a regular cast member of the David Renwick sitcom One Foot in the Grave from 1990 until 2000. He also played George Windsor in the series 8-10 of Waterloo Road.

English - Actor | Born: January 6, 1956

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I'm not sure anyone ever feels they belong in showbusiness. I think everyone feels a bit of a fraud, that one day they'll get rumbled.

Angus Deayton

When I was five I said I wanted to be either a funny man or on an advert.

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Nostalgia has always been big. I don't think it ever goes away - people enjoy it.

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I was presenting the Baftas live on BBC1, and as I skipped down the steps on to the stage at the start, I felt my heel clip the edge of the last step. Fortunately there was just a stumble, but one centimetre more and that could have been the most dramatic entrance of any awards host.

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The Sun once did 20 things you never knew about Angus Deayton - and I didn't know 16 of them.

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I find it baffling that for years and years I got tremendous stick for the amount of money I earned.

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Most of the comedy characters I played have been extensions of my own personality and very similar to Mike Channel. It's a weird eclectic mixture of your genuine character and the character you portray.

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Sir Alex Ferguson is the most impressive person I've met in terms of charisma and achievement.

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I fell into presenting after doing about a decade of parody shows of presenter-based shows, and a lot of it was me parodying a presenter, so when I started doing 'Have I Got News For You', I carried on that persona.

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I was away in France, as I was studying French and German, and a friend of mine bumped into a guy called Richard Curtis, who was producing the Oxford Revue that year. Two people had dropped out and he asked me to step in.

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I never set my sights on being an actor or comedian or presenter.

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When you are in a long-running series you don't look outside it because you don't really need to do much else. When you don't have that you are much more open to offers, like presenting Hell's Kitchen or making a motoring show in Madagascar with Mariella Frostrup.

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I live 300 yards away from my ex and son. I see them all the time. We all went away on safari recently.

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I was the youngest of three, so simply copied my older brothers. It made life very easy. We wore the same yellow jumpers that our grandmother knitted, went to the same school, laughed at the same jokes, and supported the same football team.

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I still listen to Radio 1. I never really matured or progressed to Radio 2 or even Radio 4, like most of my contemporaries.

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I appear to have had more comebacks than Status Quo.

Angus Deayton

Football is my first love - Man United, not comedy.

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I took great offence at a journalist who called me blokeish. I have always seen myself as metrosexual and in touch with my feminine side.

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That's sort of what showbusiness is - a charade. People are basing their assumptions about you on half the facts. The rest of it just isn't true.

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I have had girlfriends, but nothing to go public on. I recently worked out that I have only been single for about six months of my life. Since I was 18 I have gone from one long-term relationship to the next. I am not unhappy.

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I was just about to sue the BBC for unlawful dismissal when I ran into Michael Foster, Chris Evans's agent, who said never go near the law courts. Especially as an individual against a corporation with limitless funds.

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People think the end of a relationship is a bad thing, but it can be a natural thing.

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Good evening and welcome to Have I Got News for You, the show that's done for Friday and Saturday nights what ten pints of lager does for Sunday mornings, although I wouldn't know, being more partial to cocaine personally. Allegedly.

Angus Deayton

Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Angus Deayton

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