Quotes by Johnny Vegas - Page 2

My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Vacation
Home
Holiday
San Francisco
Staying
Two
Nearly
Weeks
Ended
Francisco
San
Supposed
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You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Women
Foolish
Las Vegas
Winning
Easily
Gentlemen
Led
Sway
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People are always asking, 'Where does Michael Pennington end and Johnny Vegas begin,' and you're going, 'It's not like that: it's blurred right across.'
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Vegas
Always Where People
Blurred
Michael
Johnny
People End Always
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We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six different types of flu and other unmentionable diseases.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Different
Disease
Flu
Shooting
Different Types
Diseases
Types
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Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Book
Reason
Therapy
Writing
Examine
Forced
Oh My God
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I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, 'You're on stage tonight.'
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Massive
Nerves
Shock
Stage
Stress
Tonight
Waking
Experienced
System
Waking Up
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I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Birthday
Kids
Smile
Birthday Party
Grumpy
Las Vegas
Party
Good Enough Me
Gig
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I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Frightened
Las Vegas
Needs
Return
Want
Circuit
Sign
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I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Decorating
House
Illumination
Obsessed
Tasteful
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There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Fans
Gay
Stuff
Lots
Anyway
Channel
Cliff
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I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
American History
Clever
Pie
Song
Uniting
Sang
Tune
Wrapped
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I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Jobs
Full Potential
Night
Realising
Thinking
Nights
More And More
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I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Add
Newspapers
People
Thinking
Weight
Love Me Look
Love Look Me
Stone
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They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Apartment
Dreamer
Las Vegas
London
Looks
Terrace
Windows
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When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Confidence
Smile
Aesthetic
Attractive
Children
Hands
Overcoming
Realised
Overcome
Cruel
Suffered
Taunt
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I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience. But I also know it's enriched my life, my dad being a Catholic.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Catholic
Tainted
Enriched
Explore
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Being 'Johnny' was almost like an out of body experience. I thought he was just a character that I'd created and could quite easily step away from, but it was much more difficult than that.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Body
Character
Steps
Johnny
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I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for my memories aged nought to ten are all bound up together in a mesh of innocence and fun.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Kids
Fun
Memories
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I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Birthday
Smile
Changed
Mind
School
Seminary
Sex
Wanted
Started
Could
Even
Priest
Trained
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I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Going Away
Journalist
Personal Life
Use
Wikipedia
Life Time Where
Life Time More
Anyway
Loath
Promote
Same Time
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I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for... my memories aged nought to ten... are all bound up together in a mesh of innocence and fun.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Innocence
Memories
Mesh
Aged
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Some comics are in it for what they can get out of it. Others are in it for a love of comedy. I think those that are in it for a genuine love of comedy find each other within the circuit and become friends.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Comedy
Genuine
Genuine Love
Thinking
Circuit
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There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Jobs
Couple
Finished
Phones
Turns
Willing
Month
Ring
Phone
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There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Drag
Gifted
London
Natural Resource
Resource
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'Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Coping
Destroyed
Mechanism
Throwing
Upset
Johnny
Laughs
Ordinarily
Tweaking
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From a certain age, I sort of accepted myself for what I was. And although to other people it was like nothing ever goes right, I had a really nice attitude that I'd inherited from my parents, and especially from my dad.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Accepted
Certain Age
Inherited
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I've been offered all the reality TV shows but have turned them down. If I did it as 'Johnny,' there'd be no jungle left! It was really hard regaining control of myself, so I am reluctant to let 'Johnny' back out of the box.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Jungle
Reality Tv
Reluctant
Tv Shows
Box
Johnny
Offered
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I am very proud of what 'Johnny' achieved in stand-up comedy because he believed entirely in giving an audience the best kick he could. But he was someone who was quite detrimental to my health, both emotionally and physically.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Detrimental
Stand Up Comedy
Achieved
Believed
Emotionally
Entirely
Johnny
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I've always said that with kids' TV that people get stuck in it from drama school but that's not fair because I know myself that when you go in creatively, kids are so much more open to ideas. You're so much freer to mess about and try things.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Kids
Drama
Ideas
Mess
Not Fair
School
Stuck
Myself Always People
Creatively
Drama School
Fair
Myself People Always
Freer
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You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Affection
Genuine
Links
Horribly
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I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors, but to a young live-comedy audience you're not, really.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Editors
Media
Relevant
Thinking
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In credits, I'm 'Michael' sometimes now, but people know you as something, so there's no point fighting it. 'Squiggle,' you'll always be 'Prince,' and 'The Rock,' just accept it. I want to move on, but not that much. So I'm still known as 'Johnny Vegas.'
Johnny Vegas / Actor
No Point
Vegas
Credits
Michael
Johnny
Move On
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I thought I could play the hellraiser and then put 'Johnny Vegas' back in his box. I found popularity through self-destruction. The more you damage yourself, the more people are drawn to you, and that can be quite addictive. It is not a lifestyle you can maintain.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Damage
Lifestyle
Popularity
Self Destruction
Vegas
Yourself People More
Addictive
Box
Drawn
Johnny
Maintain
More People
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I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me. There was a chunk of my childhood missing. Once I'd realised it wasn't for me, I still felt a tremendous pressure to continue for fear of letting everybody down.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Childhood
Happy Life
Missing
Pressure
Realised
Life Home Great
Aspirations
Chunk
Tremendous
Letting
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I wanted to try and trace the genuine origins of 'Johnny' and how he so successfully staged this takeover of 'Michael Pennington.' 'Johnny' is a contradiction to who I am as a person. I'm not very good at confrontation, I have a tendency to internalise and to carry things around.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Confrontation
Contradiction
Genuine
Good I Am Person
Michael
Johnny
Origins
Staged
Successfully
Takeover
Tendency
Trace
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I don't want to demonise 'Johnny.' I was really proud of what he achieved. Especially within stand-up. He was quite a unique voice. I will always possibly be trading off 'Johnny's name, but there's a lot more things that I'm able to do now - the strengths that 'Michael' can bring to it.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Trading
Achieved
Michael
Johnny
Strengths
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Being behind the camera is where I feel comfortable. I've found something that I feel I, as 'Michael,' can be as confident in as 'Johnny' was on the stage. It's great being part of the creative process. You're right at the start of an idea, and you get to see it all the way through till the end.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Creative Process
Confident
Michael
Johnny
Till
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I couldn't be 'Johnny' in front of a camera in acting jobs and behind the camera I like to be 'Michael.' With directing, you can't do it by halves. There's a lot of reflection, and I have found that I, as 'Michael,' thrive on it. It's lovely coming home and feeling that stuff from a day's work as myself.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Jobs
Coming Home
Lovely
Reflection
Thrive
Work Home Myself
Camera
Directing
Michael
Front
Halves
Johnny
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There was always that thing with 'Johnny' - I always saw myself as his writer and PR. But when he got out there, I had no control. His whole thing was going off on those flights of fancy. Going, 'Let's see what we can possibly do that hasn't been done before up here.' And when it works, it's lovely; it's a great night.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Fancy
Lovely
Great Myself Always
Flights
Johnny
No Control
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I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Dad
Labour
Not Knowing
Racism
Real
Situation
Sleep
South Africa
Thinking
University
Years Ago
Africa
Came
Lion
Mentioned
Real Man
Refused
Sleeping
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The people on the QVC shopping channel convince me that life is worth living. They see the good in everything. People who go to counselling should actually go to a room with a QVC seller for half an hour and let them find the qualities within them. For example, they'd look at me and say, 'To anybody else this looks like a stomach but, actually, his feet never get wet in the rain.
Johnny Vegas / Actor
Depression
Feet
Rain
Shopping
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