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" I was going to be a jazz-fusion guitarist. I came to London at one point with my mate, and we were going to make it. We spent three days there and went back home to our mummies. "

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" Not really a good idea to eat things fans have made because you don't know what state of mind they were in when they made them. "

Julian Barratt

Good

Fans

Know

" I'm not a natural comic, I don't think. That's why I gave up stand-up. It was hard. It involved a lot of death. Dying. Dying on stage. But it's one of those jobs you can only learn by doing it. "

" I don't do stand-up anymore. "

Julian Barratt

Stand-Up

Anymore

" When things start running a bit too well on the tracks, I tend to derail them if I can. "

" I remember films I made at university, which are unbelievably pretentious. Poetry that I'd written that I delivered to camera, against a Venetian blind, strong shadows, looking slightly off-camera. "

" It's good to give people a jolt. If they're expecting one thing, it's important to give them something else. If you do something startling, audiences might at first freak out, but then they start to think, 'This is not going to be conventional. I'm going to enjoy this.' "

" We just thought of 'Boosh' as an extension of our childhoods in a way, the stuff we had grown up on and loved: 'Monty Python,' The Goodies, Frank Zappa. It spoke to a certain type of person, and we just carried on doing it. "

Julian Barratt

Person

Way

" Most comedians are borderline psychotic. It's what makes their work interesting. "

" I did try and do some spooky stand up once, and some of my stand-up had - I tried to do some horror stand-up, but it didn't really work very well. "

" My dad listened to a load of jazz - Mahavishnu, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock. "

" I'm not very funny at all in real life. "

" I'm always trying to do anything between comedy and horror. "

" Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who are not really there. "

" I miss quite major cultural signposts quite often. "

" My life is divided up into before I had kids and after. "

Julian Barratt

Life

My Life

" It's a weird profession, as I don't really consider myself an actor. I did at one point, and I went and started doing auditions, and I was so useless at them and so demoralised by doing audition after audition and not getting them and also not being able to take it in my stride at all. I just felt crushed and worthless. "

" Sport doesn't do anything for me. And I don't do anything for it. "

Julian Barratt

Sport

Anything

" I don't have any friends with cool clothes. "

" We should send a load of bad celebrities to colonise Mars. They would have to mate in space, and then their children would be sent back to Earth in 50 years' time. "

" I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter. "

" The acting life can be quite scary, really. "

" If the 'Boosh' was a bit more of a specific thing, or less multi-limbed, we would probably have done it and moved on. "

Julian Barratt

Would

Bit

" If you come away from a show thinking of an image, that's as good as remembering a joke. A lot of those shows, like 'The Office,' they are brilliant, but they're not visually interesting. "

" Pain - that is what life is about, isn't it? Suffering with moments of reprieve. "

" I don't like talking about myself; I'm not good at analysing myself. I don't want to analyse myself. "

Julian Barratt

About

Want

" This business is ephemeral, and you have to maintain a healthy cynicism about it. There's a 'flavour of the month' aspect to it, so you have to keep moving on and mutating. "

" I ran off stage at my first gig. Halfway through it, I forgot my lines and didn't know what to do, so I just ran out of the building down towards a lake. I was going to throw myself in, but the compere came out and said, 'No, it's going well, come back and finish the gig!' "

" I've been a horror fan pretty much in the sense that my sense of horror and my sense of humor were both equally kindled by films as a kid. "

" Life without music would be a mistake. "

" I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred. "