English - Actress | June 5, 1974 -
With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.
Nina Conti
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I think acting is overrated. I'm not sure I enjoyed it. You never get to write your own roles. It's wonderful for some people, but I found it nerve-wracking. I was too busy worrying that no one would give me their words to speak.
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I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house.
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I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.
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Because I'm around comedians all the time, in my downtime I tend not to watch comedy. Something the whole family enjoys is 'You've Been Framed!' It satisfies all of us. It's universal, and we all laugh a lot.
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It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it.
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I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets.
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