105 Quotes by David Baddiel

I spent a long time on a big studio sitcom, 'Baddiel's Syndrome,' for Sky, and got no audience.

I had a 'the Cure' hairstyle, bigger even than Robert Smith's for many years. I used to do jokes about it which went well, but which meant I had to keep sporting it long after it was fashionable.

I can't bear the idea that I might be in any way deluded about myself.

The food in central Asia is not so great: it tends to be horse.

I don't think comedians are better travellers but they are communicators and storytellers.

I spend a lot of time on social media and people ask me if the abuse I get is upsetting, but working in comedy has built up my skin - I'm used to hecklers.

Everyone is complicated, but when you're famous, you have to be pigeon-holed. By doing different stuff, that's rubbed up in complicated ways against the culture.

I've been aware of my own mortality since I was 12.

When I first started on telly, I used to get quite a lot of fan mail from Indians saying it's great that an Indian is on!