Anyone who tells you that it is better to have loved and lost that to never loved at all has never done both. Jon Richardson More Quotes by Jon Richardson More Quotes From Jon Richardson I put a lot of effort into not upsetting people and trying to do things the right way, so I feel I can reserve the right to complain when I feel let down by others. Jon Richardson feel effort people way When you are single, you're invested in the world because you have to be, because that's all you've got. When you have a kid, it's not more or less; it's just a different way of worrying about the world. And worrying about the world after I'm dead. Jon Richardson dead you way world I really like stews: everything in a bowl boiled down right to its essence. Jon Richardson right down everything like If I watch 'The X Factor,' I know I'm never going to aspire to sing, so I don't mind if they're good or bad, but when I watch 'Bake Off,' because I aspire to be good at it, I find it easy to try and put myself in their position. Jon Richardson bad good myself mind If I'm with someone, I want them to be perfectly happy all the time. That, for me, would be the reason you would devote yourself to one person. Jon Richardson yourself me you time I accept you can't achieve perfection all the time, but you can achieve perfection of intent, maybe. I don't think you can go into a relationship with anything other than the intention of it being perfect. Jon Richardson you perfection time relationship My mum's amazing. She's the person I admire most, I think, in her sacrifice to me and my sister and her level of emotional sacrifice to people around her. She takes a high level of personal responsibility for the welfare of people around her. Jon Richardson me sacrifice responsibility people I'm not building my life round not being able to bear the thought of being in my 60s and not having someone next to me when I wake up in the morning. That's not what drives me. Jon Richardson my-life me morning life If you don't wash dishes properly, you will get ill. And you will lose friends because they'll come to your house, you'll give them tea in a filthy cup, and they'll never see you again. Jon Richardson lose you friends tea I think more people should worry about where they store things in the fridge. I don't think people are on top of separating raw and cooked ingredients. Jon Richardson things think worry people I always mention stacking the dishwasher - any opportunity. But it's the consequences - it's the food poisoning and the potential death that will come with not loading the dishwasher properly. Jon Richardson will opportunity food death No book has ever made me laugh as much as 'I, Partridge.' Jon Richardson laugh me made book 'One Leg Too Few' by Peter Cook is a perfect sketch. The setting is ridiculous, the language is beautiful, and the performances make the most of every syllable and movement. Jon Richardson sketch language perfect beautiful I think comedy can be a way of sugar-coating a pill that needs to be taken, and whatever I complain about onstage, I hope I justify the negativity by using humour to make the point. Jon Richardson think comedy hope way I certainly tried to talk about less complex things, but I've had to accept that it's just not what I do. That isn't to say that my shows are depressing - they aren't. At least, I hope they aren't! The problem I have with stories about happy things is that they don't require any skill from a comic - they just repeat the details verbatim. Jon Richardson skill problem hope happy I think a pessimist is just an optimist who has had their heart repeatedly broken. Jon Richardson just think broken heart My wife's biggest fear is air pollution, living in London as we do. She's convinced that's the big problem. And my own is sink holes and the inevitability of us all, at some point, collapsing into a sink hole and never being seen again. Jon Richardson pollution wife problem fear When I'm filming a documentary, I feel like I should be the straight man, watching with a raised eyebrow. Jon Richardson watching feel like man There are things I wouldn't do when hosting, like get people up on stage or get the audience doing a sing-song or something like that. Jon Richardson something doing things people I need to keep my ad-libbing skills honed and make sure I'm able to banter with people and treat topics a bit more light-heartedly. But as a stand-up, first and foremost, my job is to make sure that I can write the routine that hopefully people will talk about when something big happens. Jon Richardson treat job i-can people
