Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

I was in a band called Groove Solution. Because there was a groove crisis, and we solved it.

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

The profession is rife with fear about your age, about your validly, longevity, appearance. It's vanity, and it's hard to sort of avoid all those things; they come at you as an actor.

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

You don't need a high concept to make a great film, of course. 'Withnail & I' is not - it's probably not much on paper, but it's one of the funniest films ever made.

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

My dad wanted to be a musician, so when I started playing guitar, he was like, 'Go for it.' That is what I did for ages; I was in bands. And then I went to university and got into comedy somehow.

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out.

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

Comedians are not well people. Well people are not drawn to creating.

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

I'm not very funny at all in real life.

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

We did have that, in the background of the character and the show, 'Mindhorn,' set on the Isle of Man, that every episode they would have to mention the temperate microclimate of the Isle of Man.

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

I like the countryside. I like chopping wood. I'd like to be a carpenter.

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

In comedy terms, usually when the weather's bad, it goes much better. When it's sunny, people don't come to see comedy gigs because they're all really happy and don't need cheering up.

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?'

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

I miss quite major cultural signposts quite often.

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

When you're really laughing, you feel like a little kid, and nothing matters.

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

I ran off stage at my first gig. Halfway through it, I forgot my lines and didn't know what to do, so I just ran out of the building down towards a lake. I was going to throw myself in, but the compere came out and said, 'No, it's going well, come back and finish the gig!'

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

The secret of comedy is don't grow up. That's why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up.

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

We used to have to convince people we were funny, and it didn't always work.

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

Sport doesn't do anything for me. And I don't do anything for it.

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

I am a man who dreams of culture.

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt

People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to Monty Python and Vic Reeves. We're not like Ricky Gervais's hyper-real cringe comedy. We're at the other end of the scale, but there's room for the sillier stuff, too.