22 Quotes by Angus Deayton

That's sort of what showbusiness is - a charade. People are basing their assumptions about you on half the facts. The rest of it just isn't true.

I never set my sights on being an actor or comedian or presenter.

I'm not sure anyone ever feels they belong in showbusiness. I think everyone feels a bit of a fraud, that one day they'll get rumbled.

I took great offence at a journalist who called me blokeish. I have always seen myself as metrosexual and in touch with my feminine side.

Most of the comedy characters I played have been extensions of my own personality and very similar to Mike Channel. It's a weird eclectic mixture of your genuine character and the character you portray.

Nostalgia has always been big. I don't think it ever goes away - people enjoy it.

I was away in France, as I was studying French and German, and a friend of mine bumped into a guy called Richard Curtis, who was producing the Oxford Revue that year. Two people had dropped out and he asked me to step in.

I still listen to Radio 1. I never really matured or progressed to Radio 2 or even Radio 4, like most of my contemporaries.

I find it baffling that for years and years I got tremendous stick for the amount of money I earned.