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" Do I wake up every day and thank God that I live in 21st-century Britain? Of course not. But from time to time, I recognise it as an unfathomable privilege. "
Robert Webb
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" I was an usher at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. You had to watch whatever play they had on 40 times. "
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" I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really. "
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" On 'EastEnders,' if someone gets surprising news on the phone, the scene ends with them looking at their handset in amazement. No one in real life does that. "
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" It was quite an honour when 'New Woman' magazine voted me 88th sexiest man in the world. I think I was one in front of David Cameron. "
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" I am a feminist. I don't especially care for the term, but there it is. "
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" I can't imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly. "
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" I'm a huge, huge fan of Chris Morris. I think he's a genius, and it is not a word I use very often. I think he's fantastic. "
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" I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments. "
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" I spend far too much on taxis. Now, if anyone suggests we get the Tube I say, 'The Tube! I'd forgotten about that.' "
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" Labour is at its best when it remembers its moral fury. "
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" It's odd because some actors are very scared of comedians. "
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" When the Mac ad campaign was in full swing, I quickened my pace as I went past certain bus stops. My wife told me that she loyally took a piece of chewing gum off my nose once. "
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" When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very sarcastic - I'm not any of that. I can do it, but that's not what I'm like. "
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" Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives. "
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" The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men. "
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" I don't do much to keep in trim - I try to walk places instead of driving whenever I can, but I really ought to do more. "
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" Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below. "
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" When I look in the mirror, I see the ageing process at full pelt, the hairline in retreat, the bags under the eyes growing and darkening, that kind of thing. I suppose it would be easier if I weren't an actor, but I am fairly philosophical about it. "
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" My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire. "
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" My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year. "
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" It should go without saying that there are as many working-class people who hold socially liberal views as there are public-school bigots. "
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" We have a family holiday once a year, usually abroad, but that's it. I feel I should have holidays for my family's sake, but I'm not that adventurous. "
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" I don't really have that much contact with Americans. I mean, I see the oddest things on the Internet, I suppose. And I've got a couple of American friends, but they are Anglophiles anyway because they've decided to come live here. "
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" I suppose if I went to Turkey - I mean, I can't imagine going that far away, but if I did go to Turkey, yes, I would probably try to know 'please' and 'sorry' and 'thank you', and 'a beer please', and all the useful words. "
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