You cant be a casual observer of something humorous – you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work. – Brendan Coyle
My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didnt enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef. – Brendan Coyle
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy. – Brendan Coyle
I left school at 16 but I wish Id gone to university – I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I dont think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision. – Brendan Coyle
It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages? – William Booth