As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing. – Jimmy Carr
After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering grannys words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead. – Jimmy Carr
I didnt plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, its juvenile, but thats me. – Jimmy Carr
I dont think its any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and manned up in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because Im not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way. – Jimmy Carr
The flowery Path of Poetry but ill accords with the thorny Mazes of the Law; in the one I have wandered with rapture from Infancy, and I have endeavoured to grace the other with a simple but lasting Ornament—Integrity of Heart. – Charles Snart, “Dedication, to Robert Lowe, Esq. Oxton,” 1807 January 1st, Newar