Top 40 James Corden Quotes

I’ve been lucky enough that in the U.K., I’ve done shows that have aired once a week. I make a show there that runs seasonally, and we make one episode a week, and that is great – the value of time. You can really think and finesse what you want to do.

Nobody tells you when success comes around; in its transient way, you’re just working and exhausted all the time. Sometimes I think I’m just sleeping in the back of cars, d’you know what I mean?

I’ve not met a soul who wants to see The Wanted over One Direction. The thirst for those boys is insane.

There were a couple of years where I got a bit lost – I went out too much, I was a bit heartbroken, thought I was a bit more of a dude than I really was. I would love to go back and have a strong word with myself.

I think the weather here is a big attraction for anyone. But also, there are more creative people per square mile in L.A. than anywhere in the world. They make ‘The Simpsons’ here. Anywhere they make ‘The Simpsons’ is a good place to be.

On stage, you have to have incredible confidence, or you would stop doing it. But I don’t think I will ever get to the point where I go, ‘I know exactly what I am doing,’ and I don’t think I want to.

It’s enough now of being unhealthy. I have a family, and I owe it to them to be as healthy as I can. A great sense of clarity comes when you have a child. It shows the important stuff to be important.

I’m very proud of ‘Gavin and Stacey,’ but I think I have to write something else even to start to consider myself a writer. Just because you do something once, it doesn’t mean that’s who you are. I played football last night; it doesn’t mean I’m a footballer.

I could never understand, when I watch romantic comedies, the notion that for some reason, unattractive or heavy people don’t fall in love. If they do, it’s in some odd, kooky, roundabout way – and it’s not. It’s exactly the same.

BBC3 even started their biggest shows, like Jack Whitehall’s ‘Bad Education,’ they premiered on the iPlayer a week before it went on TV. I think it should always be at the forefront of what is fresh and exciting, and therefore it should be the first channel to exist online.

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can’t be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

I don’t consider myself to be incredibly confident, or really lacking in confidence. When you’re on Jonathan Ross’ or Graham Norton’s show, inevitably there’s something to sell. And there’s a live audience; you’re sat between Cameron Diaz and Tinie Tempah – I don’t really see it as ‘me.’ It would be odd if it was.

I don’t want to feel like I’m a television host – because I don’t think that I am. What I really want to feel like is, I am you; I just happen to be here.

I haven’t always voted for the same party, mostly because I find that strange. One thing I’ve never quite understood is when people say ‘I’m a Conservative’ or ‘I’m Labour,’ before even hearing what the person running stands for or wants to change.

I love hard work. ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.

It’s a strange thing, this idea that for some reason, if a lot of people like what you’re doing, it’s therefore not very good. We use the phrase that a band have ‘sold out.’ Just so you know, if you’re doing a gig and you sell all your tickets, that is a brilliant thing to do.

What’s important is the work that you’re doing, not the country that you’re in. I would much rather be in a play at the Royal Court than in Los Angeles making ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.’

When I dance, I look almost identical to Beyonce. And I mean identical. In many ways, when she becomes Sasha Fierce, she’s actually just becoming me.

I’m not a stand-up comedian; I’m not a satirist.

I wish I didn’t like sweets as much as I do. I wish I didn’t get carried away sometimes.

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

People say: ‘Oh, but would you be happy for your show to go on BBC3 if it was just online?’ If I was sat here telling you I had just signed a huge deal with Netflix you’d be going: ‘Wow, that’s amazing.’ You can’t see it as ‘Oh, it’s no longer a channel because it’s not on TV.’

When I look back at the church I grew up in, I realise that nothing about its behaviour was very Christian. It was just a social club on Sundays where people would meet up with their mates.

I’m never going to try ‘Carpool Karaoke’ in New York. That would be a very different thing. Mariah Carey’s one, we just drove, like, five or six blocks round where she was staying at the time.

There’s nothing nicer than getting a round of applause for turning up for work. It’s amazing! You start work, and people clap. Do you know what I mean? And then they stand up and clap at the end.

First concert I saw was a British boy band called Take That when I was 14 or 15. I went with nine girls from school.

‘Lesbian Vampire Killers’ was quite embarrassing.

I love ‘Jerry Maguire.’ I absolutely love it.

If you can reach people in their pockets, on their lunch breaks, on their commutes to and from work, on recess at school, and make things they want to see, that’s an amazing thing for a show like ours.

Oh my God, I never really tweet, but there’s a moment every day I write one and then delete it.

The positivity of the Obamas as a family is undeniable.

No boys liked Take That, and it was weird if you did because they danced around and wore matching clothes. But I didn’t grow up with a dad who told me something was manly or not manly.

You can’t make anything without making mistakes, do you know what I mean? Robert De Niro’s in the ‘Rocky and Bullwinkle’ film. There’s a lot of far greater people than me who have made mistakes in their careers… There’s loads of people who have made stuff that isn’t good and never get asked about it.

Look at bread, and see it as a Dairy Milk Cadbury’s chocolate bar, and say to yourself, ‘OK, you don’t need that.’ Bread is bad.

I saw Boy George looking amazing, absolutely unbelievable, and messaged him asking for the number of his nutritionist. I got in touch with her, and she put me on this diet plan, working out which foods do and don’t suit me. It’s not rocket science – basically, don’t eat cake, don’t eat bread.

I do a mean beef Wellington. Gordon Ramsay’s is a phenomenal recipe. But that’s a lot of prep. The secret to wrap it in Parma ham before wrapping in pastry. I’m so pro smuggling more meat in.

My major ambition is just to stay relevant.

I want to act, I want to write, and I need to follow good directors.

I’m very lucky, in that I’ve known Adele for quite some time.

I met my wife; she barely owned a television and worked for Save the Children. We sat down one night, and we fell in love, and that was it.