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" I love wearing drag. "
David Walliams
I Love
Drag
Wearing
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" When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me. "
David Walliams
Child
Me
Book
" It's a weird thing because I've been single at the time when I've been successful. That's good and bad. Good, because you meet lots of people, bad because your privacy is infringed, so it's harder to develop things. "
David Walliams
Privacy
You
Good
" When I want comfort food, I buy Maltesers. I like all chocolates, but especially those. You can eat them, and because they're so light, you can convince yourself that they are not actually that fattening. "
David Walliams
Eat
Yourself
You
" When you are doing endurance swimming you just need to take in as many carbs as possible to put on as much weight as you can. Basically you can eat whatever you want, which can be quite fun. Everything is guilt-free. "
David Walliams
Swimming
You
Fun
" I haven't traditionally been a family entertainer. "
David Walliams
Been
Family
Entertainer
" My favourite restaurant of all time is Mildreds on London's Lexington Street. It's a little vegetarian restaurant and is really fun and healthy, too. It was the first place I went to in London and really liked. That was 20 years ago, and it is still my favourite. "
David Walliams
Healthy
Fun
Place
" I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable. "
David Walliams
Others
Off
Love
" I haven't put much effort into my personal life and blithely believe it will turn out all right in the end. "
David Walliams
Effort
End
Life
" We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things. "
David Walliams
Things
Sit
Room
" I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football. "
David Walliams
Me
Talking
Football
" I am a huge fan of 'Doctor Who.' "
David Walliams
Am
Fan
I Am
" I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll. "
David Walliams
Uncle
Dress
Sister
" I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins, and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name with somebody who either is famous or becomes famous. "
David Walliams
Who
Think
Sharing
" There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way. "
David Walliams
Magic
Music
Numbers
" I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it. "
David Walliams
Finding
Think
Joke
" I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired. "
David Walliams
I Feel
Tired
Quite
" I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts. "
David Walliams
Myself
Fear
Thoughts
" I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman. "
David Walliams
Retired
Traits
Gentleman
" I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and sometimes they film for two hours. But with 'Britain's Got Talent,' you're on camera for eight hours, with a large theatre audience watching - and in between you're being filmed for ITV2 as you eat your lunch. "
David Walliams
Lunch
Theatre
Enjoy
" It can be difficult to be subtle and not cartoony in prosthetics. But when you see characters like Bubbles and Desiree from 'Little Britain' on screen, it makes all the hard work worth it. It's such fun watching those transformations. "
David Walliams
Worth
Fun
Hard Work
" I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to. "
David Walliams
Childhood
Alone
Creativity
" I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it. "
David Walliams
Person
Attention
Got
" Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself. "
David Walliams
Myself
Know
Literature
" The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I'd say a food mixer. I've never used it, I don't really know what they're for. "
David Walliams
Morning
Food
Kitchen
" Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world. "
David Walliams
British
Believe
You
" Social satire has been around since people have been around. "
David Walliams
Satire
Been
Around
" I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly. "
David Walliams
Attention
Want
You
" Definitely I love women, I love being around women, I find them incredible and intoxicating, and I've never had that feeling I get with women with a man. "
David Walliams
Find
Feeling
Love
" It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland. "
David Walliams
Person
Always
Someone
" I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first. "
David Walliams
Radio
First
Who