Quotes by Catherine Tate - Page 1

Few things focus the mind like fear.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Few Things
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I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Bits
Frightened
Silence
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I don't like tea! Never have, never drunk it.
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Drunk
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Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Children
Flamboyant
Shy
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I like doing both TV and live stuff, though it's nice to mix it up.
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Mix
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I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Anxious
Doubt
Nagging
Needs
Realised
Gnawing
Wake
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I was not a 'Doctor Who' fan. As a kid, I thought it was scary and for boys.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Doctor Who
Scary
Doctor
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That's the poisoned chalice: when you're shy, people assume you're arrogant.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Arrogant
Shy
Assume
Poisoned
Shy People
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No one got anywhere by being too scared to open their mouth in case nobody laughed.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Laughed
Scared
Anywhere
Case
Mouth
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Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Creativity
Hopelessness
Panic
Poverty
Bit
Feeling
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At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Firsts
Glasses
Half
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At my core, the glass isn't half-empty - it's not even what I ordered in the first place.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Core
First Place
Glass
Ordered
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Don't take criticism personally; take from it what's useful. Apply it and move on to something better.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Criticism
Apply
Useful
Move
Move On
Personally
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I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Careers
Lax
Lazy
Thinking
Who I Am
Work I Am Who
Naturally
Defines
None
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My advice to you is please don't ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don't think you're good enough.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Advice
Locks
Thinking
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I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Default
Form
Negative
Position
Relief
Neutral
Set
Incredibly
Success Is
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Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Awkward
Children
Humour
Mechanism
Use
Controlling
Deflect
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I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it is never going to be as hard as looking after a child.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Jobs
Children
Schedules
Schedule
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It's never been a point of reference to look to a man. It's not always a good thing, I suppose, but I think independence is always preferable to dependence.
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Independence
Dependence
Good Always Man
Good Thing
Suppose
Preferable
Reference
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Any degree of success or achievement for me is only ever a relief. My version of getting carried away is: 'Mmm, that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.'
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Achievement
Relief
Version
Carried
Degree
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There's no game plan when it comes to thinking up new characters; inspiration can come from anything - from a wig I've seen to an expression I've heard someone use.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Game Plan
Heard
Inspiration
Seen
Plan
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I've never really thought I'd get married. It's not that I'm suspicious of it or anything like that, it's just that I don't have a reference for it because my mum wasn't.
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Mum
Suspicious
Get Married
Reference
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How nice it would be to breeze through life and just brush things off. I never read reviews because I hate to lose more than I like to win; I experience negative emotions far greater than positive ones.
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Breeze
Reviews
Brush
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By a lot of peoples standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was probably spoiled because I never had to share. And I was doted on.
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Attention
Spoiled
Way
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By a lot of people's standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was probably spoiled because I never had to share. And I was doted on.
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Material Things
Privileged
Spoiled
Standards
Life People Never
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Writing comedy is an exposing thing because you're putting yourself on the line with every joke you write, and although you can't second-guess an audience, if you want to be successful, you have to write stuff people like.
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Exposing
Joke
Second-Guess
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My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures in my life, really. I had my godfather, but he's more like a grandfather, so I was quite sheltered. I've never tried to find my father.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Figures
Grandfather
Months
Mum
Six
Male
Life Dad Father
Godfather
Sheltered
Tried
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I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I was 17, which was too young, in retrospect, and finally went when I was 21. I just kept plugging away. Determined? Yeah, I think I was.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Accepted
Determined
Retrospect
Speech
Central
Plugging
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If I hadn't had a baby, a part of me thinks I might have turned up on the red carpets all the time and gone, 'Hi, it's me!' Maybe other people do it because they haven't got kids and they've nowhere else to be. But because I have, I don't feel like that.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Time Me People
Nowhere
Hi
Red Carpets
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Nothing is ever going to be as important or as exciting as a baby. Everyone has their highs and lows, but if you've got that one constant in your life - in my case, a baby - the highs are never going to be as big, and the lows are never going to be as bad.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Constant
Lows
Life Your Important
Highs
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When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Confidence
Facility
Ginger
Humour
Personality
Realised
Red
Would Be
Label
Subconsciously
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I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow flies, going from being in a TV sketch show to playing one of Shakespeare's finest characters, but, hey, that's the way it has happened.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Crow
Finest
Fortuitous
Hey
Stand Up Comedy
Unemployed
Usual
Shakespeare
Sketch
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Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Casting
Disservice
Excited
Lure
Stars
Theatre
Theatrical
Experience Great People
Parts
Plays
Putting
Right People
Stunt
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I used to go red when anybody spoke to me. It's awful because you absolutely cannot control it. If you are a child that blushes, or is shy, the one thing you want in the world is to be the child who comes in and says, 'Hi,' to everyone and goes up and makes friends.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Red
Shy
Blush
Hi
Spoke
The One Thing
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'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off. I think this is mainly because writing anything down and then handing it over to a third party - especially in comedy - is such an exposing act that you naturally want to delay the process.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Delay
Exposing
Always Me Process
Naturally
Handing
Mainly
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I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I decide what part of my personality you're seeing. I don't want you to look at me, I really don't. I don't want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look.
Catherine Tate / Comedienne
Clothes
Comment
Hair
People
Realised
Seeing
Controlling
Further
Older
Labeled
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If you want more people to come to the theatre, don't put the prices at £50. You have to make theatre inclusive, and at the moment the prices are exclusive. Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.
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People
Play
Stars
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