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Jack Dee

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

— Jack Dee life

I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

— Jack Dee art

And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.

— Jack Dee life

In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.

— Jack Dee man

I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.

— Jack Dee people

Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion.

— Jack Dee joy

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

— Jack Dee age

I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.

— Jack Dee men

I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.

— Jack Dee real

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

— Jack Dee religion

If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.

— Jack Dee fire

The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.

— Jack Dee rain

The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up.

— Jack Dee life

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

— Jack Dee hope

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

— Jack Dee people

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

— Jack Dee depression

Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'

— Jack Dee funny

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

— Jack Dee life

One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it.

— Jack Dee life

It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it.

— Jack Dee man

But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

— Jack Dee education

I don't think anyone's particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you see a comedian on stage in jeans and a t-shirt it doesn't matter how good they are - it always looks like amateur hour when they walk onto the stage.

— Jack Dee art

I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

— Jack Dee think

I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it.

— Jack Dee time

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.

— Jack Dee art

I have had issues with depression all my life, and its probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

— Jack Dee life

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