David Mitchell
David Mitchell
English stand up comedian and half of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb, alongside Robert Webb. He is best known for starring in and writing the Channel 4 series Peep Show, for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance in 2009. He has also written and starred in several sketch shows including The Mitchell and Webb Situation, That Mitchell and Webb Sound and, That Mitchell and Webb Look.
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth14 July 1974
CitySalisbury, England
Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?
Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.
Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.
To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
I feel like something important has happened to meIs this possible?
... but it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the domain of the young there dwells many an Undead soul. They rush about so, their inner putrefaction is concealed for a few decades, that is all.
Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.
I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.
I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my first-born novel, laughed at my phrasing, twirled my lacy pretensions around and gobbed into the seething mosh pit of my stolen clichés. As I read the report, the world became very quiet and stopped rotating. What poisoned me was the fact that the report's criticisms were all absolutely true. The sound of my landlady digging in the garden got the world moving again. I slipped the letter into the trash... knowing I'd remember every word.
Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.
The earth's a door, if you press your ear against it.
As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.
Lunatics are writers whose works write them.
Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.