105 Quotes by David Baddiel

The first proper car I had was an old Nissan Micra.

I thought I was great at football. For a long time I thought I could have been a professional if I'd wanted to.

Frank Skinner was a terrible flatmate in some respects. He never cooked and the cleaning lady refused to go into his room. But he was brilliant because he was very, very funny. You could just sit around at home and have a laugh without having to rely on any social arrangements.

An academic is what I would have been if I hadn't been successful as a comedian. I've never had a proper job.

I'm very committed to anti-racism and gender equality - political issues, but not party political.

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.

I think I have a problem. I'm incredibly open about myself.

He's a very sweary sort of bad tempered curmudgeon of a man. That's the joy of my dad, that he's not a conventional nice grandpa, or indeed a conventional nice dad.

In between being born in Nazi Germany, and marriage to my dad - of which I think marriage to my dad might have been worse - my mother had a very difficult and complicated life.