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" Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood. "
Paul O'Grady
Comedy
Your
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" I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show. "
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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'. "
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" I don't go for glamour roles. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I like to travel, and I would love to be fluent in at least four languages. "
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" I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it. "
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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. "
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" I don't like awards ceremonies. I'd sooner go to the pub with mates I've known for years. "
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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. "
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" It's become normal for me to walk on set as Popeye, Frankenstein or an Elf or even a chicken. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" I was Popeye mad when I was a kid, and I'd eat spinach until the cows came home. "
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" Times are hard and friends are few. "
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