Words matter. These are the best Jack Whitehall Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It’s a bit like being in a psychiatrist’s chair – but more enjoyable.
I acted at school but got very bad parts – things that they’d made up in Shakespeare plays like ‘Guard 17’ – so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.
For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of ‘alright guvnors?’ It wasn’t true to who I was.
Once you start doing a lot, you don’t ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you’re not doing something.
When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow’s lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp – even up close, he’s amazing.
I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
I’ve definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: ‘I’m not going to do jokes about anything crude because I’m bigger and better than that.’ But then, I don’t know… It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
I like to think I’m a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.
I’m very conscious of other people’s opinions and of people not liking me.
Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I’m just gangly.
When I’m on stage, I’m quite over the top – I’m quite flamboyant and camp.
I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
My dad doesn’t hug me enough!
I hope people think of me as a bit older. I do have a beard. That makes me look very old.
I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.
I eat healthily, as it keeps my energy up.
I was the first person in the world to audition for ‘The Hobbit’. The casting director told me that when I went in. That’s a lot of pressure, isn’t it? The first person in the world.
