Words matter. These are the best Brett Goldstein Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It can be actually quite cynical to go, ‘Isn’t it nice to be nice to people?’
Me and my dad, all we talk about is football. I do realize, for whatever our issues are and whatever repressions there may be, talking about football is how we communicate. He’ll call me up and say ‘This is what happened at the football.’ But what he’s also saying is ‘I love you.’
When they asked me, ‘Do you want to work on Ricky Gervais’ new series?’ did I say, ‘Hang on, I’ll have a think about that. I’m very busy at the moment. I’ve got to do a gig above a pub for 10 quid tonight?’ Of course I didn’t! I said, ‘Yes, please! It’s the new Ricky Gervais show, for God’s sake!’
I wouldn’t recommend wearing tight Spandex for hours. It don’t half chafe.
Without sounding pretentious, if you get the emotional truth right, then you’re set. Then the funny stuff you can pile on as much or as little as you want.
It’s so funny, this thing of ‘overnight success.’ I’ve been doing this for 20 years, but yes, sure, it happened overnight!
I wanted to be a stuntman first, and I used to pretend to be Indiana Jones and jump off roofs and slide under garage doors. I was 29 at the time.
If I’m not acting, I’m writing.
I end up talking with people about relationships very quickly, because I find them interesting, and everyone’s got a take on it.
I think everyone is interesting if you ask the right question.
I’ve been in and around football all my life, but I’ve never been good at it, which I think my dad was very disappointed by.
I just like making stuff.
I grew up with a lot of footballers.
I haven’t had people chanting at me in the street.
The film that I go on about and drive people mad is ‘Don’t Look Now’ with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland. It’s the best married couple acting you have ever seen in any film, the way they are together.
I think it’s quite easy to get caught up in the discussions about a show that people are having. But you have to tell the story you were going to tell.
I’ve always wanted to work with Ricky Gervais.
I basically work all day on ‘Soulmates’ and then all night on Zoom on ‘Ted Lasso,’ and I can’t complain because I appreciate how absolutely insanely lucky I am.
I think in every stage in your life, your view on what love means and what it is changes.
My Dad is finally proud of me. He always wanted me to be a footballer. He is a football hooligan, a true obsessive, if I had been born on match day he would not have been at the hospital, so for me to be able to at least pretend to be a footballer, means I’m finally allowed home at Christmas.
I’ve seen too many things where the end is, ‘Well, you should’ve stuck to traditional values.’ I think it was interesting to try to do something different with it.
There are ways of swearing that express all of your love and emotions.
If you write a script that people like, then people will do it.
No one wants to stop paying football – it’s just that your body can’t. That’s tragic.
I love the love that you see for ‘Ted Lasso,’ but there’s also, I think, a kind of simplification of the show. Particularly from people who haven’t seen it and are only aware of the hype and probably get annoyed with it.
I knew a married couple that had an open relationship last 15 years, and I was fascinated by it.
Quite early on when it came out, I was outside my front door and the man who lives opposite me ran across the street and he went, ‘Ted Blasso! Ted Blasso!’
The greatest thing about stand-up is that it is the opposite of making a film.
I’ve seen stuff that says be nice and I think: you’re not showing me anything. You’re telling me, like a Hallmark card: be nice, nice to be nice, innit?
Everyone wants to be better because of making ‘Ted Lasso’ and the way we make it.
