Jimmy Carr Quotes - Page 3

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• Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence.

  Jimmy Carr

  Thinking

  "What I know about women" by Jon Bennett, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2008.

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• It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.

  Jimmy Carr

  Cutting, People, Laughing

  "This much I know: Jimmy Carr" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2011.

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• I do realise that when I laugh, it sounds like a seal is being molested.

  Jimmy Carr

  Laughing, Sound, Realising

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• Once I was doing a sponsored walk. In the end I managed to raise so much money, I could afford a taxi.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Ends

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• People with Tourettes.....What makes them tick?

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, People

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• I think they got it wrong with Saddam Hussein. They thought he had the A-Bomb. Instead he had a bomb.

  Jimmy Carr

  Thinking, Bombs, Hussein

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• I've got a friend whose nickname is "Shagger". You might think that's pretty cool. She doesn't like it.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Jimmy Carr's 40 most memorable jokes: One-liners and videos galore to mark comic's 40th birthday" by Rob Leigh, www.mirror.co.uk. September 14, 2012.

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• I worry about my nan. If she's alone and falls, does she make a noise? I'm joking, she's dead.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Fall, Humor

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• In Pizza Express you can get garlic bread with cheese and tomato. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but that's a pizza.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Tomatoes

  FaceBook post by Jimmy Carr from Mar 24, 2008

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• I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Sound

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• I may be middle class, but I'm hard. 'Al dente', you could say.

  Jimmy Carr

  Class, May, Als

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• I was out with a friend and he came over with a pair of girls. I said to him "They're like buses." He said "What? Because you wait for ages and then two come along at once." I said "No, they are like buses!"

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.

  Jimmy Carr

  Here I Am, Laughing, Trying

  "Jimmy Carr interview: Motormouth reflects on the crazy world of stand-up comedy". www.mirror.co.uk. November 18, 2011.

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• Yes, I have this crazy honk of a laugh.

  Jimmy Carr

  Crazy, Laughing

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• I think that comedians, more than any other type of celebrity, have to keep their humour and keep their feet on the ground. If they start taking themselves too seriously, they're heading for a fall.

  Jimmy Carr

  Fall, Thinking, Feet

  "Preview: Jimmy Carr , Grand Opera House, York November 20" by Charles Hutchinson, North Yorkshire County Publications, November 19, 2004.

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• I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.

  Jimmy Carr

  Successful, Thinking, Cake

  "Stand up and be counted, comedians" by Charlotte Cripps, The Independent, January 31, 2007.

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• Jesus loves you... He's not 'in love' with you.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Jesus, Love You

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• I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.

  Jimmy Carr

  Life, Religious, Thinking

  "This much I know: Jimmy Carr" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2011.

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• But what's true about comedians is that we've all got a huge hole in our personality. In a room of 3,000 people, we're the one person facing in the opposite direction - yet we have this overwhelming desire to be liked.

  Jimmy Carr

  Overwhelming Desire, Opposites, People

  "He who laughs last... - Comedy" by Stephen Armstrong, The Sunday Times, December 3, 2006.

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• All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be.

  Jimmy Carr

  Comedian, Different, Audacity

  "The Razz: Jimmy's Brent on Being Funny". The Daily Record, February 28, 2004.

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• Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I'd stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service.

  Jimmy Carr

  Luxury Hotels, Giving, Room Service

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• As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

  Jimmy Carr

  Marketing, Firsts, Comedy

  "The Boy Behind the Man". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 03, 2004.

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• I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real laugh.

  Jimmy Carr

  Country, Real, Simple

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• A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.

  Jimmy Carr

  Sound, Surprising, Jokes

  "What I know about women". Interview with Jon Bennett, www.theguardian.com. March 08, 2008.

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• I like to write a joke without any fat on it.The shorter the better. I cater for people with ADD, basically.

  Jimmy Carr

  Writing, People, Add

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