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"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."
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"Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me."

"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."

"I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!"

"Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that."

"I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere."

"I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up."

"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."

"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."

"You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess."

"My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up."
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"I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it."

"The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty."

"I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist."

"I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme."

"It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book."

"One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing."

"Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical."
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