Top 79 Quotes & Sayings by Greg Davies - Page 2

It's an irony that with the physical decline of age comes more mental wellbeing. It's life's cruel trick. You've settled down as a person, you feel happier with who you are, and then you get a massive swollen prostate and have to go for a test every two weeks. It's life's way of saying the struggle isn't over.

I am most certainly not rich. But I am a man who is intrinsically lazy. And I'm more than happy to put a piece of cheese on a rice cake and call that dinner.

I love what I'm doing and will continue to do it, and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

As anyone who's done any acting will tell you, if you haven't got a malicious evil streak, it's such a joy to let one out.

When I was 17, my dad was teaching in the States. He hired an A-Team-style van, and we drove all over. My resounding memory of it was that we saw all these wonderful places but that my sister and I were being horrible, sulky teenagers.

I've never disguised the fact that I wasn't happy in teaching. But the reason was that I wanted to do comedy. I would have been a very unhappy security guard or a very unhappy greengrocer.

As soon as I get the chance, I'll be back spouting nonsense on the microphone.

I wasn't a happy teacher, but I also wasn't an absolute psychopath like the teachers I portray on screen.

In standup, the feedback is instantaneous, and if it fails, you know you'll be off-stage and hiding in a short time.

Some of my friends in this business have received awful online abuse, but I've so far pretty much avoided it - and I've largely avoided meeting hideous people in the street. Most people tend to be charming.

Some friends think I'm dull now. But I think it's great that I'm no longer trying to make everyone laugh in the pub.

The state of the world petrifies me as much as it does everyone else at the moment. Anyone who comes to my show expecting incisive political analysis will be deeply disappointed.

I had a great time as a teacher, but I was just treading water, as a lot of us do.

Carla Lane's 'Butterflies' seemed to be on in our house at all times when I was a kid, as did 'The Good Life.' But it was 'Fawlty Towers that made me really sit up for the first time. Basil's incandescent rage made me howl.

I got to the stage where I physically couldn't carry on unless I gave comedy a go: it was necessity.

As far as characters are concerned, Alan Partridge makes me wet myself. I'm currently reading the book and have started talking like him as an unfortunate consequence.

Myself and some kids on our estate became obsessed with the creation of the ultimate go-kart. This ambition culminated in the creation of a six-man super-cart, which was essentially a plank of wood with four wheels, and a failed attempt to jump a tributary of the River Severn powered only by Rex, our dog.

Humour is learned behaviour, and I know exactly why I learned to be funny. I did it from a very early age. My dad was a hilarious man, and the way we interacted was being silly together. It was a way to hold his attention.

I'm 6ft 8in, so I feel like I've got full body thrombosis about five hours in if I'm flying in economy.