Top 44 Les Dennis Quotes

Every night in ‘Hairspray‘ we will be doing a vocal warmup, so I hope that will improve the muscles. It is a muscle, and we’ve not been using it – anybody that is on stage, that is.

I changed Philip‘s nappies when he was a baby and did my fair share of getting up and rocking him to sleep. Bringing up a little girl will be a different experience for me.

If I go out to a house and it’s half empty I prefer to think it’s half full. And I trust people. Even if it all goes wrong you go again.

It annoys me how expensive it is to live in London, but I think that annoys everyone.

I hoped doing ‘Celebrity Big Brother‘ would reboot my career: if you can’t beat them, join them. It’s tough because you want to be known for your work rather than just for who you are, you know?

Try your best not to let others down, and don’t do anything that will lose you sleep at night.

On the old passports, mine used to say ‘entertainer‘, but now on forms I say ‘actor‘. But I still worry that people will think I’m a charlatan.

I made the decision to go on stage after my father died. And he would have wanted me to. But I won‘t try and plug huge grief up with the false world of show-business ever again.

I love coming to Edinburgh and last time I was here, Claire and I found out we were expecting our daughter Eleanor, so it’s a place dear to my heart.

I got a little bit pleased with myself. I didn’t buy a Rolls-Royce or anything like that but I didn’t see my biological family for a while. I was getting a bit self-important and they told me. They dragged me back.

When I power-walk with a couple of mates, it’s like a men‘s club. We talk about what it’s like to be, well, men. It works as exercise and therapy.

I’ve never watched any videos of my time on ‘Celebrity Big Brother’. Honestly. It’s something I could save for when I’m an old man. It was a watershed, the catalyst to the end of my second marriage.

I resisted emotional involvement for a while because I didn’t believe it could work.

I love coming to Edinburgh and last time I was here, Claire and I found out we were expecting our daughter Eleanor, so it’s a place dear to my heart.

I hoped doing ‘Celebrity Big Brother‘ would reboot my career: if you can’t beat them, join them. It’s tough because you want to be known for your work rather than just for who you are, you know?

My thing has always been to change tack, do something that challenges me.

I am a very honest, open person and I think there is a tendency in celebrity autobiographies to gloss over certain things which have happened.

I do sometimes stop and think. I mean, I’m 62 now and I’ve got a child on my shoulders and he could be my grandson.

I changed Philip‘s nappies when he was a baby and did my fair share of getting up and rocking him to sleep. Bringing up a little girl will be a different experience for me.

But the one thing you can say about me is that I’m very resilient. I always bounce back. I’m like a rubber ball.

Being a parent is a tiring business.

I’ve never watched any videos of my time on ‘Celebrity Big Brother’. Honestly. It’s something I could save for when I’m an old man. It was a watershed, the catalyst to the end of my second marriage.

And if I hadn’t done ‘Celebrity Big Brother’, I wouldn’t have got ‘Extras’, so in the long run what was seen as a terrible mistake turned out well.

Every night in ‘Hairspray’ we will be doing a vocal warmup, so I hope that will improve the muscles. It is a muscle, and we’ve not been using it – anybody that is on stage, that is.

I wish people would listen rather than rush around in their own world. There’s a danger that we are becoming stuck in a bubble and losing the ability to communicate.

But the one thing you can say about me is that I’m very resilient. I always bounce back. I’m like a rubber ball.

If I’d been doing the cabaret circuit or the club circuit or the Saturday night telly that was around in the 80s, I wouldn’t be around any more, because those shows have fallen by the wayside. So I have had to keep changing.

My thing has always been to change tack, do something that challenges me.

Phil‘s a lovely, lovely boy. He’s 33, but I still call him my ‘boy’. He was young when ‘Family Fortunes‘ started, and there’s a lovely photo of him holding up a clapperboard for me on set.

I’d love to do Shakespeare. I’ve been asked to do Malvolio but for one reason or another haven‘t been able. On a school trip to the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford I saw the great Emrys James as Feste and it’s always been a role I’ve coveted.

Being a parent is a tiring business.

I am a very honest, open person and I think there is a tendency in celebrity autobiographies to gloss over certain things which have happened.

Phil‘s a lovely, lovely boy. He’s 33, but I still call him my ‘boy’. He was young when ‘Family Fortunes‘ started, and there’s a lovely photo of him holding up a clapperboard for me on set.

I can remember going to the north-east clubs and having the hardest time of my life on stage and saying to myself, ‘I’m not coming off.’ And I would go through an hour‘s material in 20 minutes.

I wish I’d gone to university. I had the opportunity to go to Oxford but by then I’d already started as a comedian.

If I’d been doing the cabaret circuit or the club circuit or the Saturday night telly that was around in the 80s, I wouldn’t be around any more, because those shows have fallen by the wayside. So I have had to keep changing.

Extras changed the public‘s perception of me hugely – they saw there was more to me than just this bloke off the telly.

On the old passports, mine used to say ‘entertainer‘, but now on forms I say ‘actor‘. But I still worry that people will think I’m a charlatan.

I resisted emotional involvement for a while because I didn’t believe it could work.

When I power-walk with a couple of mates, it’s like a men‘s club. We talk about what it’s like to be, well, men. It works as exercise and therapy.

And if I hadn’t done ‘Celebrity Big Brother’, I wouldn’t have got ‘Extras’, so in the long run what was seen as a terrible mistake turned out well.

Extras changed the public‘s perception of me hugely – they saw there was more to me than just this bloke off the telly.

I am a big self-doubter. I suffer from Impostor Syndrome. Whenever I start a new job, I think: ‘I’m going to be found out.’ I don’t have a huge ego or enormous belief in my own talent.

Every city has comedians who tap into local culture and have success but don’t travel well.