David Walliams
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HAKEEM OLAJUWON LOU REED RYAN GOSLING JACKSON BROWNE NOVAK DJOKOVIC I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change... GABRIEL IGLESIAS LAURA MVULA IGGY AZALEA SEAN YOUNG SARAH SHAHI SHANNON LUCID EDGAR WRIGHT HALSEY STEVE JOBS I'm introverted, and I pay attention to my muse... Record companies used to go mad and say '... ROBERT PALMER I realised when I sang at family parties and Christmases I'd suddenly get everyone's attenti... KIKI DEE I'm not trying to be self-serving, but you know, you get to Hollywood, and if you want to make s... TERRY ZWIGOFF Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON GERI HALLIWELL Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' ... MERLE HAGGARD After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There... D. B. WEISS It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor th... JON HAMM ELLEN DEGENERES ELLEN ULLMAN I try to create an environment where it's okay to make a mistake, though it's not okay to be... RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON NEIL PATRICK HARRIS I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it... PIPER PERABO JERRY SEINFELD I'm probably the least flexible athlete you'll find. When it comes to yoga, I can't get ... STEVE BLAKE It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for... BRADLEY COOPER There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there... IMRAN AMED Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straig... 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More David Walliams
All human life can be found in an airport. DAVID WALLIAMS I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in Londo... DAVID WALLIAMS When I want comfort food, I buy Maltesers. I like all chocolates, but especially those. You can eat ... DAVID WALLIAMS When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful... DAVID WALLIAMS No more watching that show Small England or whatever it's called where those two idiots dress up as ... DAVID WALLIAMS I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be ... DAVID WALLIAMS A bully can only make you feel bad about yourself if you let them. DAVID WALLIAMS All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time. DAVID WALLIAMS I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to... DAVID WALLIAMS I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my da... DAVID WALLIAMS I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't thin... DAVID WALLIAMS In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem.DAVID WALLIAMS TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet. DAVID WALLIAMS There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than oth... DAVID WALLIAMS We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things. DAVID WALLIAMS I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as ... DAVID WALLIAMS Definitely I love women, I love being around women, I find them incredible and intoxicating, and I&#... DAVID WALLIAMS I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself i... DAVID WALLIAMS My favourite restaurant of all time is Mildreds on London's Lexington Street. It's a little ... DAVID WALLIAMS The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge ... DAVID WALLIAMS I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating ... DAVID WALLIAMS flanked by two incredibly bulky nurses who dwarfed her. One nurse had a black eye, and ‘LOVE’ an... DAVID WALLIAMS Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British... DAVID WALLIAMS It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone... DAVID WALLIAMS I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins, and I think there's something ter... DAVID WALLIAMS I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable. DAVID WALLIAMS I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired. DAVID WALLIAMS It can be difficult to be subtle and not cartoony in prosthetics. But when you see characters like B... DAVID WALLIAMS The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor... DAVID WALLIAMS I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches i... DAVID WALLIAMS I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and s... DAVID WALLIAMS Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as dem... DAVID WALLIAMS I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentl... DAVID WALLIAMS I love wearing drag. DAVID WALLIAMS I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been deli... DAVID WALLIAMS I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel... DAVID WALLIAMS People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's ac... DAVID WALLIAMS I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything ... DAVID WALLIAMS My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ... DAVID DAVID KATZMAN LARRY DAVID DAVID HAREWOOD DAVID HAREWOOD In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ... DAVID COVERDALE George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo... DAVID LANGE DAVID LYNCH Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a... 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DAVID HARSANYI Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end ... DAVID HEWSON Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds... DAVID HANSON DAVID SEDARIS College is a magic time. Yes, you're young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college e... DAVID SZE DAVID MAMET DAVID LACHAPELLE Gribenes have been referred to as Jewish popcorn or kosher pork rinds. It's basically chicken sk... DAVID SAX Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two wh... DAVID EINHORN I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being... DAVID EINHORN During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first pr... DAVID EINHORN I rooted for the Milwaukee Brewers and its stars, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor. I went to a lot of g... DAVID EINHORN I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work. DAVID EINHORN My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. Wh... DAVID EINHORN There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table. DAVID EINHORN On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughn... DAVID EINHORN Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and yo... DAVID EINHORN DAVID CRYSTAL LARRY DAVID Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one coun... DAVID HILBERT Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpe... DAVID MIXNER If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to ... DAVID HALBERSTAM DAVID TENNANT I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up... DAVID STRATHAIRN
You want success, and then when you do get it, you don't want it because of the attention. 
I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in pr... 
It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay atten... 
I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you... 
Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn't want you to look at my right hand then I don... 
If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw atte... 
That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It wil... 
I try not to apologize, especially publicly. That's a slippery slope, because I'm a comedian... 
I'm a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can't eat too many because ... 
It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like... 
I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pict... 
I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unle... 
I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.'... 
I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it.... 
Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you... 
It's hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for 'Rent' because the... 
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and ... 
There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a... 
David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that&#... 
I don't want to get married - I've been there and done that. So I know what I'm talking ... 
It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, &#... 
That's what happens in Hollywood. People are like, 'I want to hate you, because everyone els... 
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations... 
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write ab... 
I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as... 
Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it... 
I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you. 
Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's makin... 
They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageab... 
If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't... 
You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them dow... 
Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess... 
I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't c... 
You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan... 
You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, b... 
The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and a... 
I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just ... 
I hate the new word processors that want to tell you, as you're typing, that you made a mistake.... 
The voiceover thing is very selfless. You go in there and they've hired you for your voice, but ... 
You want to do good things, and once you've done a couple of good things in a row, you think ... 
Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attentio... 
It's different, it's weird to say, 'She's a white rapper or she can't do this be... 
In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at th... 
When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history... 
Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because ... 
You have to really want it, and don't take it personally if you don't get a job. Because som... 
The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't oth... 
If you come to any of my live shows, you'll see, it's very frenetic. I have the attention sp... 
I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is... 
You start in bars and then restaurants, then you want to get into comedy clubs where you feature, th... 
In one respect, it's easier to open a restaurant in New York because you get more media attentio... 
It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person be... 
Sometimes you don't want to get married too much to a lot of rehearsing, I feel, when it comes t... 
When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a ... 
You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ... 
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil... 
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar... 
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k... 
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. 
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar... 
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik... 
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i... 
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th... 
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. 
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le... 
The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The... 
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth... 
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood... 
You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i... 
People use irony as a defense mechanism. 
I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go... 
I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll. 
I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. 
I've had an awful lot of good fortune. 
Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is. 
You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old. 
All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger... 
The law always limits every power it gives. 
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million differe... 
Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination. 
False modesty can be worse than arrogance. 
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. 
If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve. 
What I value most in my friends is loyalty. 
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea ... 
Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you ... 
I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to... 