Quotes by Stephen Mangan - Page 1

I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Documentaries
Massive
Sucker
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I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
School Plays
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Theatre's a much less faddish, more sensible world than TV or film.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Sensible
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My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Childhood
Close Family
Gregarious
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I can watch anything from 1970s West Coast rock to 1990s electro-funk - I don't care.
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West Coast
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Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people wont.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Comedy
People
Personal Things
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Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people won't.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Funny People Comedy
Personal Thing
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I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Couple
Done
Marathon
Race
Races
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I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Dad
Actors
Growing Up
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I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types.
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Builder
Arty
Types
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If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Depressing
Moody
Folk
Folk Singer
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I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Classical
Great Actor
Route
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I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get together and play.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Guitar
Play
Together
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I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldn't dignify it with the term band - get together and play.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Get Together
Mates
Term
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I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Believer
Dark
Passionate
Tackling
Way
Aspects
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I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Inspirational
Teacher
Combination
Enthusiastic
Peter
Scary
School
Junior
Nixon
Slightly
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Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Book
Character
Reading
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There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Reading Books
Literary
Joys
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Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Best Friend
Parenting
Dad
Order
Strict
Friend
Disciplinarian
Him
Spoon
Wooden
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I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Posh
Pretension
Working Class
Background
Mocked
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I dont like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney about me, but when I see it, there is more than a little Donkey from Shrek about me.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Littles
Mind
Watches
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When you've lost a loved one, you realise how grateful you are for any help in those moments, and any scheme that tries to help families during that terrible time gets my backing.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Grateful
Backing
Scheme
Loved One
Realise
Tries
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I don't like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney about me, but when I see it, there is more than a little Donkey from 'Shrek' about me.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Donkey
Myself Mind Me
Clooney
George
George Clooney
Screen
Shrek
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I learnt a lot about how to negotiate the camera: everyone had told me an actor doesn't really need to do anything on screen, but I realised that wasn't true. If you do nothing, it's boring.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Realised
Learnt
Negotiate
Screen
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My upbringing is so fundamentally different to my parents'. It must be strange to look at your child who not only speaks with a different accent but has a totally different view of the world.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Strange
Upbringing
Totally
Accent
Different View
Fundamentally
Parents
Speaks
View
Your Child
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When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Academic
Cambridge
Mum
Scholarship
Family Dad Me
Afterwards
Boarding
Boarding School
Carrying
Hopes
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I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith... But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with are as important as the parts you play, and that there were lots of interesting people working in film and T.V.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
World People Important
Slowly
Interesting People
Realise
Shakespeare
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My mother was gentle and warm. She was the sort of person you could really open up to. I was the eldest and her only boy, so I guess I was treated differently. She did bring me up as a Catholic, and at one time I was an altar boy, but I lost my faith, as did my father, when my mother died at 45.
Stephen Mangan / Actor
Catholic
Died
Eldest
Gentle
One Time
Warm
Altar
Guess
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