Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Martin Kemp - Page 2

The violence in 'EastEnders' is a lot more dangerous than the violence in 'Family.' It becomes dangerous when it is softened, like in 'The A-Team.'

I was brought up in a council flat in Islington with only an outside lavatory. And there were plenty of kids I knew who later ended up in prison.

When I lack confidence now, I channel a bit of Steve Owen and that transforms me.

Music was far more tribal in the Eighties; you were into one band and that was it.

I do believe there's a bit of bad in everyone.

I've never felt comfortable in the spotlight. I never felt pretty enough or wanted people to look at me.

The last six months of 'EastEnders' were a struggle and when I watched Steve Owen's character on screen during that time, I could see that the sparkle had gone out of his eyes. I'd always wanted him to be based in reality, but towards the end, it started to get into too much of a formula.

When somebody takes themselves seriously that's fodder for comedy. I think every musician goes through certain periods of their career where they're all guilty of that - Spandau Ballet included.

There's nothing worse than swollen feet after a long flight so I always wear comfortable shoes, usually trainers.

I like Virgin Atlantic and always feel at home on British Airways.

It definitely raises your game, working with your brother. You don't want to let each other down.

My parents taught us respect for other people, and for other people's things.

When you're acting, playing the bad guy, you get a chance to open up this box inside and look at all the bad things that you've got in there.

In the Eighties, London was unbeatable for nightlife and for clubbing it would have been Ibiza. But my clubbing days are behind me.

Given how shy I was as a kid, the young me would be astonished to discover that I've made a career out of acting.

I used to struggle a lot with the depiction of violence in 'EastEnders.' I had more meetings with producers about that than anything else. Because it's kind of cartoon violence, and I worry when my little boy watches it.

When you're in a band you can stay a teenager for years; my mood was determined by what number we were in the charts.

I'd grown up with no money and, when money had come into my life, I hadn't cared about chasing it. Earning it was very exciting, but only because it gave me the chance to be generous with my mates and show them how much I loved them.

I remember watching Cilla Black with my mum and dad - I must have been about six years old - and getting off the chair, going over to the TV screen and kissing her. I was sitting with Cilla once and I told her that and she laughed.

A lot of things in life only become historic in retrospect, but we knew that Live Aid was a historic day while it was happening. Two billion people around the world were watching it on television at the same time. It was a massive moment.

If something makes me cry, I cry out loud. If something makes me laugh, I laugh out loud, because that's what it's made to do.

I'm a typical 2016 TV viewer: I like short bursts of heavy watching.

When I grew up in television you couldn't go on a game show without being suited and booted.

I went to a party in Ibiza in 1984 in this house built into the side of a cliff with glass walls. It was the most dramatic thing I'd ever seen. There was a fountain that ran through the house and off the edge of the cliff. If you've ever seen the Peter Sellers film 'The Party,' it was the spitting image of that.

Our first record with Spandau Ballet went to number five - I guess we were offering something different and it appealed.

My favourite genre is probably Seventies rock: Deep Purple, Black Sabbath. I love that stuff because it's what everyone was into when I was a teenager.

Whether it was 'The Krays' or 'EastEnders' or the songs in Spandau Ballet, if you do a good job or make something that people enjoy, that's not something you want to move away from. I was never in a rush to get away from what people enjoyed.

As a child I was painfully embarrassed by everything, always blushing and unable to make eye contact.

We all go through moments of depression. It's part of being a human. Sometimes it's not circumstantial, what makes you feel that way, it's a chemical thing. You can get some help.

I had 10 wonderful years in Spandau Ballet. It was an incredible way to grow up, to hang out with your best mates, discovering the world, discovering who you are.

I'm a working-class guy.

When you have kids, things come at you that you don't expect and you twist and turn to sort it out.

I'm not a big fan of Russian airlines where you can tell the plane is about 50 years old.

I think we all subconsciously take inspiration from TV.

I'm basically a shy person.

Father's Day used to be the only day you'd say I love you to your dad.

I think one of the blessings of being involved in music is that you end up liking a bit of everything.

Like any working-class boy growing up in north London, I wanted to be a footballer.

Some of the gangster films I made - not so much the 'Krays,' because I'm really proud of that - but some of the films I made after that... There are a few of those movies I wish I'd never gone near. I'm proud of about 10 percent that I've ever done. If I never see the rest again I won't mind.

Spandau wasn't just about the music; it was about the fashion that went with it too. We were part of the New Romantic movement that happened around the Blitz nightclub in London, and we thought the best way to sell the band to America was to take the whole package to New York.