Nina Conti famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.
-- Nina Conti

#Jobs #Giving #People
I do laugh when I hear myself saying, 'I am a ventriloquist.' I am definitely suited to it, though. I took it and ran with it quite hungrily. It is not for everyone, but it is just the chance to write for a character.
-- Nina Conti

#Character #Writing #Laughing
I was really awful at auditions. There's something about sitting down and saying into the camera: 'I'm Nina and this is the name of my agent.' That makes me just die inside.
-- Nina Conti

#Names #Sitting #Agents
I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.
-- Nina Conti

#People #Scottish #Feels
I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.
-- Nina Conti

#Puppets #Stage #Humans
I had a terrible dream when I was pregnant; I dreamt the baby had a ventriloquial mouth, but there was no hand hole; I had to flick the mouth down to get words out.
-- Nina Conti

#Dream #Baby #Hands
I looked into studying psychoanalysis, wrote to the governing body and was about to start the year where they psychoanalyse you, four times a week, before you get to do it yourself. I just thought I'd taken the ventriloquism as far as I could. My act is so deconstructive, and I'd made all the monkey jokes anyone wanted to hear.
-- Nina Conti

#Taken #Years #Body
I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.
-- Nina Conti

#Dad #Thinking #People
If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.
-- Nina Conti

#Thinking #Gigs #Evening
I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas.
-- Nina Conti

#Running #Ideas #Four
I like my squishy, red, high-heeled Vivienne Westwood jelly shoes. They make you seem like you're much more of a go-er.
-- Nina Conti

#Shoes #Red #Jelly
I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets.
-- Nina Conti

#Thinking #Puppets #Nine
Because I'm around comedians all the time, in my downtime I tend not to watch comedy. Something the whole family enjoys is 'You've Been Framed!' It satisfies all of us. It's universal, and we all laugh a lot.
-- Nina Conti

#Laughing #Comedian #Downtime
Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other.
-- Nina Conti

#Way #Puppets #Opinion
The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it's in the moment, and it's seeing what will happen. It's not something that is scripted.
-- Nina Conti

#Real #Way #Puppets
I think acting is overrated. I'm not sure I enjoyed it. You never get to write your own roles. It's wonderful for some people, but I found it nerve-wracking. I was too busy worrying that no one would give me their words to speak.
-- Nina Conti

#Writing #Thinking #Giving
My dad is a much more flamboyant character than I am. I think that's why I couldn't see myself going into straight acting. I always just felt daft.
-- Nina Conti

#Dad #Character #Thinking
I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house.
-- Nina Conti

#Journey #Car #House

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