Top 75 Julian Barratt Quotes December 10, 2020 by Krista Aniston Leave a Comment “When you’re really laughing, you feel like a little kid, and nothing matters.”― Julian Barratt“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.”― Julian Barratt“’Galaxy Quest’ is a fantastic film.”― Julian Barratt“Life without music would be a mistake.”― Julian Barratt“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.”― Julian Barratt“The profession is rife with fear about your age, about your validly, longevity, appearance. It’s vanity, and it’s hard to sort of avoid all those things; they come at you as an actor.”― Julian Barratt“In comedy terms, usually when the weather’s bad, it goes much better. When it’s sunny, people don’t come to see comedy gigs because they’re all really happy and don’t need cheering up.”― Julian Barratt“We’re so insecure, comedians. ‘Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?’”― Julian Barratt“I miss quite major cultural signposts quite often.”― Julian Barratt“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!’”― Julian Barratt“The secret of comedy is don’t grow up. That’s why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up.”― Julian Barratt“We used to have to convince people we were funny, and it didn’t always work.”― Julian Barratt“Sport doesn’t do anything for me. And I don’t do anything for it.”― Julian Barratt“I am a man who dreams of culture.”― Julian Barratt“We have a need to make people laugh at things they’d never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren’t logical.”― Julian Barratt“People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to Monty Python and Vic Reeves. We’re not like Ricky Gervais’s hyper-real cringe comedy. We’re at the other end of the scale, but there’s room for the sillier stuff, too.”― Julian Barratt“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.’”― Julian Barratt“Most stand-up is incredibly boring. It’s time for people to do something else.”― Julian Barratt“I’m always trying to do anything between comedy and horror.”― Julian Barratt“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.”― Julian Barratt“I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter.”― Julian Barratt“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“It’s strange, but something about lack of structure needs a structure itself. Otherwise, after a while, it’s like looking at a Rothko painting or a Peter Greenaway film. You think, ‘OK, I want to see something else now.’”― Julian Barratt“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.”― Julian Barratt“It’s not immediately categorisable. I don’t know what to say when anyone asks what the ‘Boosh’ is.”― Julian Barratt“Adapting a book doesn’t mean the book stops just because you’ve made a film out of it.”― Julian Barratt“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.”― Julian Barratt“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“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.”― Julian Barratt“I liked horror and comedy, basically, from a young age, but I just ended up getting into comedy because there was – I could do stand-up comedy, and that was my way into this business, and then there was no stand-up horror, and I didn’t know how to get into that world.”― Julian Barratt“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.”― Julian Barratt“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.”― Julian Barratt“I think with performing, initially I was terrified on stage, absolutely terrified. And I did it again and again and again, and I learned sort of how it works, and then I was able to do it.”― Julian Barratt“For me, there’s no dichotomy between being shy or a performer, because I think it’s more a way of slightly presenting a version of things to the world.”― Julian Barratt“Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that.”― Julian Barratt“I don’t like talking about myself; I’m not good at analysing myself. I don’t want to analyse myself.”― Julian Barratt“I’ve got a lot of friends with whom I discuss jazz.”― Julian Barratt“I’ve done interviews in the past where, apparently, I didn’t give the journalist any eye contact. I’m a bit shy, yes. I’ve thought about refusing to do any press at all.”― Julian Barratt“I like the countryside. I like chopping wood. I’d like to be a carpenter.”― Julian Barratt“Most comedians are borderline psychotic. It’s what makes their work interesting.”― Julian Barratt“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“I don’t do stand-up anymore.”― Julian Barratt“I write tragedies and things when I’m alone. Chekhovian dramas.”― Julian Barratt“Musicals are just funny to me.”― Julian Barratt“When things start running a bit too well on the tracks, I tend to derail them if I can.”― Julian Barratt“I don’t have any friends with cool clothes.”― Julian Barratt“My dad listened to a load of jazz – Mahavishnu, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock.”― Julian Barratt“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.”― Julian Barratt“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.”― Julian Barratt“I love ‘Airplane,’ and I love ‘Naked Gun’ and all those films, where you’re parodying.”― Julian Barratt“Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out.”― Julian Barratt“We did have that, in the background of the character and the show, ‘Mindhorn,’ set on the Isle of Man, that every episode they would have to mention the temperate microclimate of the Isle of Man.”― Julian Barratt“With something that’s not based just in comedy, you can be a bit weirder in a slightly realistic way.”― Julian Barratt“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.”― Julian Barratt“Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you’re at home but don’t work when you shine the light of an audience on them. Great writing and live writing are two separate things.”― Julian Barratt“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“Me and Noel went to HBO once and pitched this really ludicrous idea about us driving around in a haunted car, and they just stared at us. Literally stared at us! It was awful. Luckily, we were together, so we could laugh about it, but if we were on our own, it would have been one of the worst moments ever.”― Julian Barratt“You don’t need a high concept to make a great film, of course. ‘Withnail & I’ is not – it’s probably not much on paper, but it’s one of the funniest films ever made.”― Julian Barratt“I could say I’m a writer or that I’m a musician but I don’t really do music; I do music to go with things I’m developing. Then I do act in a few things, but I’m not really an actor. I’m not a comedian, but I am known for comedy. I just don’t know. I feel like I’m a slightly interdisciplinary jack of all trades.”― Julian Barratt“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.”― Julian Barratt“The acting life can be quite scary, really.”― Julian Barratt“My life is divided up into before I had kids and after.”― Julian Barratt“I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred.”― Julian Barratt“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.”― Julian Barratt“I was in a band called Groove Solution. Because there was a groove crisis, and we solved it.”― Julian Barratt“I thought I could see how standup worked. I never thought of being an actor – or anything else, really – but I thought, ‘I can see how you get on stage and tell jokes.’”― Julian Barratt“I find the pressure to be funny when you’re being interviewed live – quite intense.”― Julian Barratt“I always dreamt of being in ‘Kerrang.’ That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then the jazz magazines took over.”― Julian Barratt“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“Pain – that is what life is about, isn’t it? Suffering with moments of reprieve.”― Julian Barratt“Comedians are not well people. Well people are not drawn to creating.”― Julian Barratt“I’m not very funny at all in real life.”― Julian Barratt“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.”― Julian Barratt“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.”― Julian Barratt“Laughter’s good, but it’s not love. It’s one aspect. One emotion you’re eliciting from your audience.”― Julian Barratt
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