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" 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. "

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" Sometimes it takes you two or three seconds to get your head round a joke and laugh at it. With a snot-bubble laugh, it comes instinctively - almost in spite of yourself. It's caused by something silly - like when a little kid says something unexpectedly bizarre. "

Julian Barratt

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

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

" Films do have suspense and tensions and scares and jumps, and I like to write things that have both in them, comedy and horror, but sometimes they are hard to balance. "

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

" I want to do things or write things that make people feel a bit more beautiful or tragic or something because there are so many other things than just funny. "

" Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that. "

" 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.' "

" I was in a band called Groove Solution. Because there was a groove crisis, and we solved it. "

" I've got a lot of friends with whom I discuss jazz. "

" I miss quite major cultural signposts quite often. "

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

" I can't do jokes. I've always come from left field and tried to subvert conventional comedy. I started as a rebellion against that - albeit a very soft and surreal rebellion. It's escapist. "

" 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. "

" I can act with either eye, but you've got to be twice as good as an actor to act with one eye. You need to put all your emotions just through one eye and really punch it out of that eye. I found it quite difficult to do at first, and then I found a technique that allowed me to act with one eye, which I patented. "

Julian Barratt

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" Most stand-up is incredibly boring. It's time for people to do something else. "

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

Julian Barratt

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" 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!' "

" 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. "

" We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?' "

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out. "

" 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

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" 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. "

" With the 'Boosh,' we were trying to do this strange, weird thing that had its own language and visual style, and it wasn't really what the powers that be wanted. "

" I find the pressure to be funny when you're being interviewed live - quite intense. "

" My dad wanted to be a musician, so when I started playing guitar, he was like, 'Go for it.' That is what I did for ages; I was in bands. And then I went to university and got into comedy somehow. "