Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Roisin Conaty

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Roisin Marcella Conaty is an English actress, comedian and writer. She won the Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 2010 for her show Hero, Warrior, Fireman, Liar. She played Jo in Channel 4 sitcom Man Down from 2013 to 2017. In early 2014, the pilot of the sitcom GameFace, of which she is the writer, lead actress and executive producer, aired on Channel 4. The first full series aired in 2017 on both E4 and Hulu in the US. The second series aired on Channel 4 and Hulu in July 2019. Conaty won the 'Heat Unmissables' Comedian of the Year award in 2019. She played Roxy in the first two series of the Ricky Gervais Netflix comedy-drama programme After Life.

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I mean, I've got a face for comedy. I say that with love. It does its job.

Roisin Conaty

Passion and kindness are the most attractive qualities. Sense of humour is up there, but kindness becomes more important as you get older. You realise the funny, charming ones aren't always the best people.

Roisin Conaty

But stand-up is also one of the few art forms where women aren't judged on their appearance - possibly the only one where people are actually there to listen to what they say on stage.

Roisin Conaty

I love it, getting the chance to write and perform your own stuff, with a huge team of people creating that world for you, is truly magical.

Roisin Conaty

Stand-up is one of the art forms where you don't have to look nice, and I hope it stays that way.

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I was a very imaginative child and I told a lot of lies. My sister used to call it my Exaggerator Calculator. I liked telling a story and I knew how to polish it up.

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I'm a Londoner, and I feel I can't live anywhere but London, but I feel more connected to Ireland as a country. I 'get' Irish people and the humour here, which is more subtle.

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I'm from an Irish family and, even though I grew up in 80s London, I spent a lot of my childhood in southwest Ireland.

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I think the most bonkers and tiring job I've ever had was in my teens where I worked in Woolworths in the Christmas period. That level of tired I've never really felt since.

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We weren't very wealthy, but I had a real working-class guilt about wanting to perform. I felt disdain towards it because of the thought that performers were looking for attention. I did theatre studies for my A levels, but didn't think a career as a performer was something I could do.

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I always worry what I would have done if I hadn't found comedy. I think what would I have ended up doing? I've worked in a construction firm, fashion company just all things where I wasn't very good at my job.

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And the comic Daniel Kitson, he makes very good pies. I think he made one with feta, it was incredible. King of the pies.

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Female standups are like hustlers. We have to be. We fight to get gigs or on to panel shows. We're made to earn it in a very different way to men.

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I like a sleeve on a dress, something pinched in at the waist that shows my figure.

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I watch stuff from all around the world. We all grow up watching American TV, so the idea that I might have teenage American girls watching my show is kind of funny!

Roisin Conaty

I'm a terrible dresser. I wouldn't know what's in or what season I'm in. It's a real effort for me not to look mad.

Roisin Conaty

Me and Greg Davies once shared a whole jar of pesto, neat, during the Edinburgh festival years ago because we had no food in the flat.

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When I was seven in Ireland I went to a barber's on my own with my pocket money and asked for long hair with spikes on top like Pat Sharp and they gave it to me.

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I grew up on a council estate in Camden and my mum and dad split up when I was about seven.

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I like a lot of makeup and I like big blonde hair. Life's too short for the natural look. Bang it on.

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I still identify as Irish. But I'm a Londoner too. It really is a great place to grow up.

Roisin Conaty

My dad died suddenly. He had a heart attack aged 52. When the hospital phoned to tell me, it felt like when you take your sunglasses off and the light changes. A visual thing happened, which must have been shock or adrenaline. It changed everything.

Roisin Conaty

Most shows for me tend to be 'missable', because I work in the evenings, but if 'Come Dine With Me' is on I'll find it. Eight hundred channels, but I'll find it.

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If something's awful, I find it funny. If something's funny, I find it funny. It's my natural, go-to place.

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I'd seen Richard Pryor and Joan Rivers, the stuff off the telly. I don't think I'd seen anything live before I did a gig, which is weird.

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All my mother's sisters are matriarchs - there are big characters and opinions.

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I come from a working-class background and it wasn't in my world to be a writer - I had no direct access to those kind of jobs. But I sensed I wanted to do something like that.

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It's really unnatural to be in a room full of people watching you on screen. It's exposing. Your little imaginary world is up on screen. They can see what I've been thinking about! It's very odd.

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My mum is hilarious. My dad was very, very funny too.

Roisin Conaty

I like garish things: I like the 1970s and 1960s, and country music - that big-hair look. I don't go for nudes or beiges. My hair's naturally black - I bleach it. I don't go for subtleties.

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I think I've got an Irish sensibility for language - I like how people talk. I'm not saying I've got it, but I'm obsessed with the way they use language, like they use a swear word very poetically.

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Comedy is one of the few places in entertainment at present where it's good for women to be, as no one is telling you that you're too heavy or too old.

Roisin Conaty

I've never been that girl who has to be in a relationship. My job has given me such a big, full life and, while I know it's not quite the same as having an intimate relationship, I do have a lot of friends and family.

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