75 Quotes by Julian Barratt

Laughter's good, but it's not love. It's one aspect. One emotion you're eliciting from your audience.

We used to have to convince people we were funny, and it didn't always work.

Sport doesn't do anything for me. And I don't do anything for it.

I am a man who dreams of culture.

We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.

It's good to give people a jolt. If they're expecting one thing, it's important to give them something else. If you do something startling, audiences might at first freak out, but then they start to think, 'This is not going to be conventional. I'm going to enjoy this.'

This business is ephemeral, and you have to maintain a healthy cynicism about it. There's a 'flavour of the month' aspect to it, so you have to keep moving on and mutating.

Most stand-up is incredibly boring. It's time for people to do something else.

I'm always trying to do anything between comedy and horror.