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Johnny Vegas Quotes

It’s lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend.

– Johnny Vegas

Never try to be witty with U.S. airport officials. It’s always lost on them and you’ll find yourself being put back on the plane.

– Johnny Vegas

My name is Michael Pennington, and I am not a comic character.

– Johnny Vegas

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

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

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

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

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

I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It’s my own paranoia.

– Johnny Vegas

This autocue was obviously written for someone else and I’ve been brought in at the last minute.

– Johnny Vegas

There’s a domino effect with certain things you say.

– Johnny Vegas

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

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

– Johnny Vegas

The idea of being on TV 24 hours a day and people seeing the real me… No.

– Johnny Vegas

You always hear people saying, ‘I hope I’m not turning into my dad’, but I’d be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.

– Johnny Vegas

I struggle as a writer, and I’m convinced that if I was at school now, I’d be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I’m drifting.

– Johnny Vegas

I’ve always been looking for other people’s approval.

– Johnny Vegas

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

You know, there’s that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound – well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

– Johnny Vegas

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

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

I’m getting positive feedback for my acting so we’ll see if any other interesting parts come up.

– Johnny Vegas

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

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

I avoid any kind of organised trips as that’s one of my bugbears.

– Johnny Vegas

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

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

I use very few muscles at the best of times.

– Johnny Vegas

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

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don’t ask what the part is, but what century it’s in.

– Johnny Vegas

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