Quotes by Paul O'grady - Page 1

Noel Coward said work is more fun than fun, but then he didn't work in the Bird's Eye factory packing frozen fish fingers nine hours a day, did he?
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Work
Bird
Eye
Fun
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I don't go for glamour roles.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Glamour
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Times are hard and friends are few
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Times are hard and friends are few.
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Friends
Hard
Times
Few
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If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it outta ya.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Opinion
Slap
Wanted
Ya
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Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Bones
Childhood
Comedy
Bone
Formed
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What was I drinking last night? Furniture polish?
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Drinking
Lasts
Night
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I love looking after animals. I find it very enjoyable.
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Animal
Enjoyable
Animals
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I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Dresses
Games
Middle
Middle Aged
Game Show
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I've got four dogs, eight chickens, 10 sheep and six pigs.
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Chickens
Eight
Pigs
Six
Dogs
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I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.
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Food
Cooking
Tea
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When my dog Buster died, I couldn't get over it. I was in bits.
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Bits
Died
Dog
Over It
Buster
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Writing is such a solitary existence, and I can only do it late at night.
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Solitary
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I like to travel, and I would love to be fluent in at least four languages.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Travel
Fluent
Languages
Least
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I'd rather do community service than sit and write a load of Christmas cards.
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Christmas
Cards
Community Service
Load
Service
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I was Popeye mad when I was a kid, and I'd eat spinach until the cows came home.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Cows
Popeye
Spinach
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I am quite happy to take a cut. You've got to, if you want to work and continue working.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Cutting
Ifs
Want
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I don't like awards ceremonies. I'd sooner go to the pub with mates I've known for years.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Awards
Mates
Sooner
Ceremonies
Pub
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I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Beef
Disguise
Steak
Provided
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It's become normal for me to walk on set as Popeye, Frankenstein or an Elf or even a chicken.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Chickens
Normal
Popeye
Chicken
Elf
Frankenstein
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I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Animal
Butchers
Meat
Animals
Butcher
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I don't want to sit until I'm 90 with people running around after me. I'm not one for sitting on the couch.
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Couch
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I only like doing live telly. It's great because you go in and do it and then go home. No edit, no retakes.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Edit
Go Home
Telly
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Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Money Me Place
First Place
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Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Adventurous
Alarms
Disaster
Fire
Kitchen
Alarm
Repeatedly
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The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Men
Baseball
Drivers
White
Men Women People
Cap
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Channel 4 are a great bunch of people to work with and the crew are lovely. Working at ITV was like being in the court of Caligula.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Bunch
Court
Crew
Lovely
People
Work Great People
Channel
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I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Circumstances
Dramatically
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I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Teacher
Enjoyed
Mother
Ran
School
Nearly
Reminded
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You can draw the character out of pets, and you can make them your friends, but they are animals, and they have to be allowed to live the lives of animals.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Draw
Pets
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I was born late - what my mother calls the last kick of a dying horse. There's three of us children, but I'm 13 or 14 years younger than my brother and sister.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Sister
Born
Brother
Dying
Horse
Mother
Three
Younger
Brother And Sister
Calls
Last
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Mum and Dad died of heart problems, my grandparents died of it, my sister has had mini strokes, my brother has had a heart attack - it's genetic; there's nothing I can do.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Sister
Dad
Brother
Died
Mum
Strokes
Attack
Genetic
Mini
Problems
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I'm not a businessman. I could pack it in, but I like work. I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson, but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop.
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Paper
Catherine
Round
Shop
Pack
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I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Aunt
Children
Mum
Obsessed
Picky
Popeye
Spinach
Tunes
Aunts
Eater
Represent
Happily
Hum
Tune
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I went to work for the Civil Service. I'd wanted to work for the Ministry of Defence because I had some far-fetched idea that it had something to do with the Avengers, but I ended up in Social Security.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Avengers
Civil Service
Defence
Ministry
Social Security
Civil
Ended
Far-Fetched
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The person I always enjoy having a meal with is Cilla Black. I might not see her for months, but then I'll pick her up at her flat, and we'll go to a restaurant, and it's like I've seen her that morning.
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Meal
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My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Teacher
Drunk
Milk
Primary School
School
Shoes
Throat
Barber
Barney
Bottle
Shop
Poured
Primary
School Teacher
Suede
Threw
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I dont live with people, thats why my relationships last. Im not romantic. Even when I was a teenager if somebody asked if they could hold my hand Id say, - no, its not heavy, I can hold it myself, thank you.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Thank You
Hands
People
Teenager
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I don't live with people, that's why my relationships last. I'm not romantic. Even when I was a teenager if somebody asked if they could hold my hand I'd say, - no, it's not heavy, I can hold it myself, thank you'.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Thank You
Heavy
Relationships
Thank
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I think it's bad for fellas when they lose their mothers. Mine was such a character. Oh it was sad, really sad. And, with her gone, the family home was gone, so what was left of any roots I had were completely dug up.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Roots
Dug
Mothers
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I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Jobs
Cutting
Eight
Fruit
Paper
Catherine
Money Me Place
First Place
Round
Shop
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I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victims' homes in 1665 who had their sentences reduced from burning at the stake to hanging for explaining the recipe that kept them from catching the plague.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Burning
Catching
Cider
Explaining
Garlic
Herbs
Mum
Plague
Representing
Sentences
Thieves
Vinegar
Hanging
Homes
Recipe
Reduced
Stake
Victims
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I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one in particular and she was just a figment of my imagination. The truth, I realise now, is that Lily owes a lot to the women I encountered in my childhood. Characteristics and attitudes were observed and absorbed, Aunty Chris's in particular, and they provided the roots and compost for the Lily that would germinate and grow later on.
Paul O'grady / Comedian
Attitude
Roots
Years
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