Johnny Vegas : (8)

" I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for… my memories aged nought to ten… are all bound up together in a mesh of innocence and fun. " - Johnny Vegas

" With stand-up you’ve just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle. " - Johnny Vegas

" I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It’s my own paranoia. " - Johnny Vegas

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

" You don’t want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am. " - Johnny Vegas

" In credits, I’m ‘Michael’ sometimes now, but people know you as something, so there’s no point fighting it. ‘Squiggle,’ you’ll always be ‘Prince,’ and ‘The Rock,’ just accept it. I want to move on, but not that much. So I’m still known as ‘Johnny Vegas.’ " - Johnny Vegas

" I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me. There was a chunk of my childhood missing. Once I’d realised it wasn’t for me, I still felt a tremendous pressure to continue for fear of letting everybody down. " - Johnny Vegas

" People are always asking, ‘Where does Michael Pennington end and Johnny Vegas begin,’ and you’re going, ‘It’s not like that: it’s blurred right across.’ " - Johnny Vegas