David Baddiel Quotes
David Baddiel presents thoughtful, probing thoughts on life, destiny and action that keep you questioning your path.
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...action restarting action: all we need to reverse inertia is some sense of consequence - some sense that beyond this occurrence there is another, and that they are linked, some sense that life has chapters.
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...he felt frustrated, his sense of fate and direction subverted by banalities - the frustration of the man who, having thought himself following his destiny, finds he is actually on the A318 to New Malden.
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That's the thing about your destiny: how are you supposed to know it when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from the random life?
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My dad was a scientist. More than that: my dad grew up in a tiny terraced house in Swansea, the only child of a second-generation immigrant family - his father sold cloth, zips and buttons from door to door - and so science - biochemistry at Swansea University, followed by a PhD at Imperial College - was his way out, his way up.
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It was definitely a challenging upbringing. My parents were by no means perfect.
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We're not designed to know hundreds of people - we're designed to know four people in our village. So the only way we can know hundreds of people is by reducing them to a stamp of their identity.
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Now 'South Park' - they are interested in blasphemy. They're interested in creating offence for its own sake.
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I have an issue with classical music.
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When I retweet a troll, I'm not thinking of the troll, I'm thinking of the audience: how can I make them laugh with me, at him?
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Fame is a silly thing that makes your life absurd.
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For a long time, I used to think that I had a man's brain that I thought more like a man than a woman. But now I've come to realise that whatever it is I do think like, it's not like men; because men don't really think like men, they think like boys.
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All of my children's books are attempts to tap into what I believe to be children's, and to some extent human beings', fantasies.
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I had probably never met a non-Jew until the age of 12.
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I'm not saying Jews should only play Jews... I personally think actors should be allowed to act.
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My theory as to why I first became a comedian is that my mother was always keenest on my younger brother, Dan. It doesn't bother me now, but it did then and the way I compensated for that was to publicise myself as myself - to tell people who I was in 100 per cent detail, going into every crevice of my life.