Quotes by Greg Davies - Page 2

Me and my sister made up a game called 'Milky Cow'. We were on holiday in France when I was 12, and there was a kid who had bovine features, and every time we went past her, we'd say, 'There's Milky Cow'.
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Sister
Features
France
Holiday
Made
Past
Game
Time Game Me
Cow
Every Time
Time Me Past
Her
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One day I woke up, had an early mid-life crisis, and decided it all had to change. I went and did Logan Murray's comedy course for 11 weeks and then started sneakily doing open-spot gigs, and that was it.
Greg Davies /
Gigs
Mid Life Crisis
Mid-Life
Woke
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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.
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Abuse
Avoided
Charming
Hideous
Largely
Received
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If you're doing a job, and you secretly want to do a different job, you start to blame the job. I was blaming the teaching for that fact I wasn't performing. I really felt I needed to follow a comedy career.
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Blame
Secretly
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I have no system of writing. It's chaos. I could be upside down on my bedroom floor; I'll be scribbling on a pad that I'll then lose. I'll be on the toilet with my laptop on, sitting in the pub with my iPad.
Greg Davies /
Bedroom
Chaos
Sitting
Upside Down
Writing
Floor
Toilet
Ipad
Laptop
Lose
Pad
Pub
Scribbling
System
Upside
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The truth is, I should have never done teaching. I did teaching because I didn't have the bottle to have a go at comedy. Whether there's any gain to comedy is not for me to say. But certainly it was no loss to teaching.
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Loss
Bottle
Gain
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I was a drama teacher, so I had the opportunity to show off in front of a captive audience. I essentially did 13 years of stand-up. Whether my pupils would agree that I was remotely interesting or not is another question.
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Pupils
Captive
Essentially
Remotely
Show Off
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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.
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Funny
Hilarious
Age
Dad
Attention
Behaviour
Being Silly
Humour
Silly
Together
Why
Did
Early
Early Age
Exactly
Hold
Learned
Very Early Age
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One of my friend calls me 'lost to showbiz', but that's only because I don't go for a drink as often as he'd like, because I'm always working. I've met very few famous people who are lost to showbiz - I have met some, mind.
Greg Davies /
Famous
Lost
Showbiz
Always Mind Me
Calls
Friend
Famous People
Met
My Friend
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I rather like finding out instantly whether you've been successful or not. It's a cliche, really, but the fact is that every gig is different: it's a live event, and you're with a different group of individuals every night.
Greg Davies /
Every Night
Gig
Instantly
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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.
Greg Davies /
Good Life
Howl
Rage
Towers
Life Time Good
Butterflies
Lane
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I was a very young 21-year-old. I was very scared. I spent three years at university in west London, and I went into central London three times. I came from Shropshire, and just having travelled that far was enough ambition.
Greg Davies /
Travelled
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'Man Down' is not a serious study of the human condition: it is a balls-out attempt at making people laugh. So nobody in the show can afford to cling on to any vanity, because we're always going to push the humiliation levels.
Greg Davies /
Human Condition
Humiliation
Levels
Serious
Study
Always Man People
Condition
Afford
Attempt
Cling
Laugh
Push
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My dad is the funniest human being I've ever met in my life - for years, I'd watch him hold court in whatever situation he was in; he was the most amazing raconteur. I often feel I've hijacked what should have been his career.
Greg Davies /
Court
Most Amazing
Situation
Life Amazing Dad
Funniest
Hold
Hijacked
Human Being
Met
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I grew up in Shropshire, but I was born in Wales. There was a hospital seven miles away, but my dad drove 45 miles over the Welsh border so I could play rugby for Wales. But as a skinny asthmatic, I was only ever good at swimming.
Greg Davies /
Miles
Rugby
Seven
Skinny
Swimming
Wales
Welsh
Asthmatic
Border
Drove
Hospital
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It's a strange thing when someone passes away. It's always when you're not expecting it that you're affected by it. When we first started filming, we were filming with existing characters in a location that we'd never been before.
Greg Davies /
Location
Filming
Existing
Passes
Strange Thing
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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.
Greg Davies /
Sister
Dad
Horrible
States
Teaching
Wonderful
Drove
Saw
Hired
Memory
Places
Resounding
Teenagers
Van
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I tend to develop my rambling anecdotes by actually getting up and performing them. That's the joy/horror of stand up - if you have the germ of an idea that you think might be funny, there is a way of finding out if it's funny very quickly.
Greg Davies /
Anecdotes
Performing
Stand
Develop
Finding
Germ
Quickly
Stand Up
Tend
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People often tell me that they have no idea how I can do standup. The idea of trying to make a large group of strangers laugh is, for many, absolutely petrifying - and it is - but there are ways of gradually developing the material that can ease the fear.
Greg Davies /
Developing
Ease
No Idea
Absolutely
Fear Me People
Idea
Gradually
Group
Large
Large Group
Material
Strangers
Standup
Ways
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I would spend a lot of time setting up an accident scene where it appeared that I had seriously hurt myself - hedge-cutter, ketchup, that sort of thing. When my sister happened upon the scene of horror, I would lift my head and pathetically plead for her to 'get Mum'.
Greg Davies /
Sister
Horror
Hurt
Mum
Scene
Setting
Time Myself Where
Accident
Appeared
Head
Spend
Lift
Plead
Seriously
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My dad always told me that, as far as he's concerned, I can do whatever I choose in life as long as I'm happy and can handle the consequences of bad decisions. He only ever said that when he thought I was doing the wrong thing. I would employ similar passive aggression.
Greg Davies /
Handle
Passive
Life Dad Always
Life Dad Me
Employ
Wrong Thing
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It often occurs to me that this is a strange way to make a living. But it's wonderful, too. There are many ways to read maturity, and I'm not fighting the instinct to simply enjoy that kind of nonsense. I love that someone would pay me to draw on somebody else's bottom.
Greg Davies /
Instinct
Maturity
Nonsense
Occurs
Strange Way
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I once bought some enormous fireworks that were literally the size of sticks of dynamite. We would go into the field behind our house, slide them into the biggest cow pats we could find, and blow them sky high. It was exhilarating and, for the cows, incredibly confusing.
Greg Davies /
Blow
Confusing
Cows
Dynamite
Enormous
Exhilarating
Fireworks
Size
Sky
Sticks
Bought
Cow
Incredibly
Literally
Slide
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'Man Down''s my absolute priority. If they give me another series, I'll throw everything into it because I really like the characters. But after that, I'll certainly be getting back on stage because I haven't done a proper gig for two years. Which is ridiculous for someone who loves it so much.
Greg Davies /
Give Me
Series
Stage
Absolute
Done Man Me
Certainly
Man Me Done
Loves
Gig
Proper
Throw
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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.
Greg Davies /
Ambition
Creation
Dog
Obsessed
Ultimate
Wheels
Attempt
Became
Failed
Essentially
Estate
Jump
Plank
Powered
Some
River
Wood
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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.
Greg Davies /
Age
Decline
Irony
Massive
Prostate
Struggle
Swollen
Two Weeks
Wellbeing
Weeks
Cruel
Happier
Trick
Mental
Physical
Saying
Settled
Test
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When you're trying to enter something as intimidating as comedy, starting out with a support network of likeminded people is a powerful thing. It was natural we'd end up working together because we went through those first petrifying moments together. We created gigs for each other, slapped each other on the back, and protected each other.
Greg Davies /
Gigs
Intimidating
Protected
Working Together
Enter
Powerful Thing
Slapped
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Every time I travel, I'm in a rage until I reach my destination. I find myself shouting at suitcases, as if it's their fault that I'm an inefficient packer. I've also learnt that whenever you despair of humanity and start thinking that you hate people - as I frequently do - you only have to travel to realise that people are basically all right.
Greg Davies /
Travel
Despair
Destination
Humanity
Rage
Shouting
Suitcases
Time Myself Start
Basically
Every Time
Fault
Frequently
Inefficient
Learnt
Reach
Realise
Whenever
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