English - Comedian | May 4, 1968 -
The acting life can be quite scary, really.
Julian Barratt
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My life is divided up into before I had kids and after.
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I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred.
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I remember films I made at university, which are unbelievably pretentious. Poetry that I'd written that I delivered to camera, against a Venetian blind, strong shadows, looking slightly off-camera.
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I was in a band called Groove Solution. Because there was a groove crisis, and we solved it.
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I thought I could see how standup worked. I never thought of being an actor - or anything else, really - but I thought, 'I can see how you get on stage and tell jokes.'
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I find the pressure to be funny when you're being interviewed live - quite intense.
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I always dreamt of being in 'Kerrang.' That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then the jazz magazines took over.
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I can act with either eye, but you've got to be twice as good as an actor to act with one eye. You need to put all your emotions just through one eye and really punch it out of that eye. I found it quite difficult to do at first, and then I found a technique that allowed me to act with one eye, which I patented.
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Pain - that is what life is about, isn't it? Suffering with moments of reprieve.
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Comedians are not well people. Well people are not drawn to creating.
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I'm not very funny at all in real life.
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