139 Quotes by Johnny Vegas

From a certain age, I sort of accepted myself for what I was. And although to other people it was like nothing ever goes right, I had a really nice attitude that I'd inherited from my parents, and especially from my dad.

I always say that the stand-up world is the arena of the unwell, and it is.

My name is Michael Pennington, and I am not a comic character.

I think men going bald is certainly off limits, coming from a family as I do, where it's in our gene pool and it could one day happen to me.

'Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me.

You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.

This autocue was obviously written for someone else and I've been brought in at the last minute.

I wanted to try and trace the genuine origins of 'Johnny' and how he so successfully staged this takeover of 'Michael Pennington.' 'Johnny' is a contradiction to who I am as a person. I'm not very good at confrontation, I have a tendency to internalise and to carry things around.

I want to be buried with Monkey. The thought of anybody else working with him would be too much.