Words matter. These are the best Robert Webb Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t do much to keep in trim – I try to walk places instead of driving whenever I can, but I really ought to do more.
Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of ‘thinker’, with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won’t really do.
I’m troubled by how much I like Rowan Williams. I think it reveals character flaws in myself that I’d rather not think about. The softly spoken soon-to-be-former Archbishop of Canterbury is my secret crush, my weird pash, and my guilty pleasure.
Like most men, I can’t say I am thrilled my hair’s falling out, but then, if I really cared, I suppose I would wear a wig, get transplants, or start taking special pills, so I am obviously just putting up with it.
I don’t care where you went to school. There – have I made your day? No? All right, I’ll go further: I also don’t care what your dad did for a living or how your mum voted. Nor do I mind whether you ate your tea in front of the telly, dinner at the kitchen table, or supper in the dining room.
I was an usher at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. You had to watch whatever play they had on 40 times.
We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.
The strength of ‘Peep Show’ has always been that that it’s quite traditional, but it’s obviously presented in a very new way.
Don’t get me wrong – intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.
I can’t imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.
Car-essential is a real turn-off to me, so yeah, I just want a friendly holiday resort with a villa and a pool, but which is really private, but there again, there’s a supermarket and a doctor’s and a beach a five-minute walk away. That’s all I want, and it’s quite difficult to find.
The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all.
My favorite series of ‘Peep Show’ is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don’t write it. It gets better and better.
No, feminism isn’t ‘over.’ We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.
We have a family holiday once a year, usually abroad, but that’s it. I feel I should have holidays for my family’s sake, but I’m not that adventurous.
I spend far too much on taxis. Now, if anyone suggests we get the Tube I say, ‘The Tube! I’d forgotten about that.’
We think; therefore, we often talk rubbish.
UKIP trades in the language of fear and division; it seeks power in order to reject responsibility.
Feminism isn’t about hating men. It’s about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives.
Where you have 20 people who all share roughly the same educational and life experiences, they’re going to come up with the same solutions to the same problems.
There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with ‘Fawlty Towers.’ It’s easy to forget.
We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then.
Basically I try not to knock other comedians.
When I was 18, I was halfway up the Eiffel Tower with my friend, Tom, when we decided to stick our heads through the railings. The gap between the railings was exactly the right size to be able to put your head through and nearly get stuck. Which is exactly what happened.
The only thing I’ve cooked while entertaining is stir-fry.
I was in the play ‘Fat Pig in the West End,’ which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.
I hate it when people use the word ‘sorry’ aggressively, as in, ‘Sorry, but I hate you.’ Sorry’s an important word, and it shouldn’t be abused.
I’d kill to be ‘Doctor Who.’ Maybe they could make the Doctor two people? He has got two hearts, after all.
Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious – it’s almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It’s not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you’re five, but it would be nice if there were some other options.
I am a feminist. I don’t especially care for the term, but there it is.
He likes ‘Confetti,’ and he doesn’t like ‘Star Wars.’ I think that just relieves us from the burden of ever having to take Mark Kermode seriously again.
I was the youngest of three brothers by five years, so I spent most of my childhood playing alone, being Zorro or some other superhero, doing Lego, watching telly and riding my bike.
My parents’ marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn’t see Dad all that often after that – four or five times a year.
I grew up in Lincolnshire, trying to get the daughters of farmers and policemen to like me. It didn’t go well until I got to college where, suddenly, there were different sorts of humans.
When I look in the mirror, I see the ageing process at full pelt, the hairline in retreat, the bags under the eyes growing and darkening, that kind of thing. I suppose it would be easier if I weren’t an actor, but I am fairly philosophical about it.
