Top 30 Les Dennis Quotes

I got a little bit pleased with myself. I didn’t buy a Rolls-Royce or anything like that but I didn’t see my biological family for a while. I was getting a bit self-important and they told me. They dragged me back.

On the old passports, mine used to say ‘entertainer’, but now on forms I say ‘actor’. But I still worry that people will think I’m a charlatan.

Phil’s a lovely, lovely boy. He’s 33, but I still call him my ‘boy’. He was young when ‘Family Fortunes’ started, and there’s a lovely photo of him holding up a clapperboard for me on set.

Being a parent is a tiring business.

But the one thing you can say about me is that I’m very resilient. I always bounce back. I’m like a rubber ball.

I’ve never watched any videos of my time on ‘Celebrity Big Brother’. Honestly. It’s something I could save for when I’m an old man. It was a watershed, the catalyst to the end of my second marriage.

Every night in ‘Hairspray’ we will be doing a vocal warmup, so I hope that will improve the muscles. It is a muscle, and we’ve not been using it – anybody that is on stage, that is.

A lot of the comics called me Bronco because I wouldn’t get off – if I had to do an hour, I would stand there, even if it wasn’t going well. I knew comics that would climb out of dressing room windows after they’d done their first spot.

And if I hadn’t done ‘Celebrity Big Brother’, I wouldn’t have got ‘Extras’, so in the long run what was seen as a terrible mistake turned out well.

On the old passports, mine used to say ‘entertainer’, but now on forms I say ‘actor’. But I still worry that people will think I’m a charlatan.

I resisted emotional involvement for a while because I didn’t believe it could work.

There have been some bad times, some very low points in my life. Doing ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ was certainly one of them. When I came out my phone didn’t ring for a very long time.

When I power-walk with a couple of mates, it’s like a men’s club. We talk about what it’s like to be, well, men. It works as exercise and therapy.

I hoped doing ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ would reboot my career: if you can’t beat them, join them. It’s tough because you want to be known for your work rather than just for who you are, you know?

Every city has comedians who tap into local culture and have success but don’t travel well.

I got a little bit pleased with myself. I didn’t buy a Rolls-Royce or anything like that but I didn’t see my biological family for a while. I was getting a bit self-important and they told me. They dragged me back.

I am a big self-doubter. I suffer from Impostor Syndrome. Whenever I start a new job, I think: ‘I’m going to be found out.’ I don’t have a huge ego or enormous belief in my own talent.

I made the decision to go on stage after my father died. And he would have wanted me to. But I won’t try and plug huge grief up with the false world of show-business ever again.

As a young comedian playing the working men’s clubs in the 70s, I’d been in awe of Dustin Gee.

Being a parent is a tiring business.

Try your best not to let others down, and don’t do anything that will lose you sleep at night.

I can remember going to the north-east clubs and having the hardest time of my life on stage and saying to myself, ‘I’m not coming off.’ And I would go through an hour’s material in 20 minutes.

Phil’s a lovely, lovely boy. He’s 33, but I still call him my ‘boy’. He was young when ‘Family Fortunes’ started, and there’s a lovely photo of him holding up a clapperboard for me on set.

My thing has always been to change tack, do something that challenges me.

I wish people would listen rather than rush around in their own world. There’s a danger that we are becoming stuck in a bubble and losing the ability to communicate.

I made the decision to go on stage after my father died. And he would have wanted me to. But I won’t try and plug huge grief up with the false world of show-business ever again.

I am a very honest, open person and I think there is a tendency in celebrity autobiographies to gloss over certain things which have happened.

I do sometimes stop and think. I mean, I’m 62 now and I’ve got a child on my shoulders and he could be my grandson.

It annoys me how expensive it is to live in London, but I think that annoys everyone.

I love coming to Edinburgh and last time I was here, Claire and I found out we were expecting our daughter Eleanor, so it’s a place dear to my heart.