Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Limmy - Page 2

You can get too involved with all the wee things in life, but the most important thing is you're alive and well.

I like some of my stuff not to be particularly funny. It's supposed to be amusing, entertaining or thought-provoking, like a curiosity. If you put it on in front of 500 people in the Odeon they wouldn't laugh. They shouldn't laugh.

Trolling can be a great way to engage with the world, a way to regain self-esteem and happiness, or, dare I say it, a way of life.

In my own mind, I can joke about anything.

I've just got a really sick sense of humour that's separate from reality.

Some people don't like showing any deviation from normality, but I like talking about things like that, so talking about my mental health wasn't a big deal.

The very first time I did stand-up, that was terrifying.

There used to be such a thing as a sick joke, or laughing at misfortune, because comedy and laughter are a way of coping. And there is a kind of cruelty to it, but you can separate finding something horrible funny, and what you really think of it.

I'd never dance at school discos, I couldn't believe people could show themselves like that.

Doctors are just people and they can make mistakes.

Going to the doctors - for me that was quite brave, taking that first step. That was a bit scary, saying that I wanted to go on anti-depressants.

I always wanted to get on the telly. Then see when I did, and there was talk about doing more online, Comedy Labs or iPlayer, I was: 'Naw, naw, naw, I want to be On The Telly that sits in the living room and folk watch it together.

I love saying terrible things. Things that I think are terrible and I've gotten in to trouble in the past - just hearing it come out of my mouth or seeing it typed and seeing it out there - something terrible that in real life isn't funny.

Once you get it in your head you're finished with something, to go back, it hurts.

I've said before I think the best thing about social media is that it brings people together and the worst thing about social media is that it brings people together. You're assuming that the people following you know what type of person you are and what type of humour you have.

Actually, I just want to entertain people. Put that in my obituary, a final picture, all dark in the background.

I would like to one day write a nice big novel and enjoy writing it and people enjoy reading it but I cannae be bothered or I don't have any ideas that would fill up a big book like that.

I get a lot of ideas sitting in the living room staring at the walls or lying in bed thinking about things.

With my upbringing and where I grew up, people slagged people. If you slagged them, they'd slag you back... I know it pales in comparison to genuine issues that people have got, but I've had people slagging my stuff off on my blog and my website for years.

People say 'Limmy's Show' is kind of hit or miss, but I'd rather that than having something generally likable.

I really like violence in writing and films.

It's almost like schizophrenia the way I get ideas about things that are not really happening and just end up focusing on them.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

I think everybody in the world should agree to no care about anything. But we'll all have to do it at the same time.

Some people don't seem to be able to distinguish between humour and what you really feel. They forget that there's a difference between what's real and what's a fantasy or joke.

I think trolling is a sort of art form, a bit of a craft.

No, I don't think I'll ever get any stalkers, as I'm the stalker type myself.

One thing I like to do is visit technical forums and ask for help regarding an entirely fictitious problem I'm having with my software. When I receive help, I say, 'Nope. Didn't work.' If they guide me to a button to click, I say, 'Nope. Can't see it.' Sometimes I just reply with nothing but 'Nope,' and it drives them up the wall.

My issue with all sort of social justice stuff and leftie stuff, and I would put myself on a social justice leftie side, is some of the terminology is jargon.

I would rather there's somebody who is just a wee bit down in the dumps believing that they've got depression and going to the doctor and getting it checked out, than not, I'd rather that everybody was given the benefit of the doubt.

I'm a pretty solitary type of person.

I'm alright with being disliked rather than trying to be perfect, because you get to relax then.

I'm just someone who likes making lots of things up and trying to be funny. That's about it.

I sometimes wonder if I'm a psychopath.

I was reading stories by Raymond Carver and some of his stuff sort of ended abruptly here and there, where in other short stories that I've read have a bit of an ending, a climax, a twist or something like that.

I've got a sick sense of humour, a dark sense of humour. I do care about things and care about people but there's another side to me.

I mean, maybe I'm alternative in that my stuff's not mainstream, doesn't want to be mainstream, could never be mainstream.

For me, in my mind personally and privately, there are no limits to comedy.

I've always had something a wee bit up with me, but I think it's some kind of learning difficulty. It's always been something.

I've said things on Twitter that I've said deliberately because I think they're out of order, I think that's the sense of humour that I've got. I like saying things that I think are terrible, because it gives me a buzz.