15 David Baddiel Quotes

David Baddiel quotes

1. ...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.

2. ...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.

3. 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?

1. 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.

2. It was definitely a challenging upbringing. My parents were by no means perfect.

3. 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.

4. Now 'South Park' - they are interested in blasphemy. They're interested in creating offence for its own sake.

5. I have an issue with classical music.

6. 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?

7. Fame is a silly thing that makes your life absurd.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. I had probably never met a non-Jew until the age of 12.

11. I'm not saying Jews should only play Jews... I personally think actors should be allowed to act.

12. 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.