Alan Davies Quotes

• The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.

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• There’s a lot to do when you’re a kid – spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye – stuff to be getting on with.

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• The thing I’d really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare’s Globe. I’d like to walk along that. Don’t worry, I won’t get drunk and fall in.

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• The one I remember is going into London, as it was for us in Essex, on New Year’s Eve in 1981. There were four of us and we’d had a few lagers on the way. One of my mates threw up in the Tube and then stood up and fell over in it. We thought it was the funniest thing we’d ever seen.

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• My favourite restaurant is the Thai Corner Cafe on St Paul’s Road. We go there all the time. I shouldn’t really mention it – I don’t want it to be chock-a-block.

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• I’m quite a curious person. I don’t mind being the one who doesn’t know things, a role I often play in QI.

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• I’m not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I’m the publishers’ friend – I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

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  I’m more inclined to linger in the science pages of ‘The Week’ magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

   

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  I was hugely disappointed that ‘Whites’ was cancelled.

   

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  I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.

   

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• I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

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• I like pubs too, but it’s hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don’t want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

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• I don’t drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

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Birth:	6th March, 1966
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Writer

About

Alan Roger Davies is an English comedian, writer and actor best known for starring in the TV mystery series Jonathan Creek and as the permanent panellist on the TV panel show QI. He also appeared in the teen comedy film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. Davies was born in Loughton, Essex. His childhood years were spent in Chingford. Davies' mother died when he was six; he was subsequently raised along with an older brother and younger sister by his father, an accountant. Davies attended Staplse Road School in Loughton and was privately educated at the independent Bancroft's School in Woodford Green, where he gained eight O-Levels. He then moved on to Loughton College of Further Education where he gained four more O-Levels and two A-Levels. He graduated in Drama from the University of Kent in 1988 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the university in 2003.

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