I think I am generally prone to exaggerating characters, taking them to a ridiculous extent. But you do also meet those people in real life who are just really awful. Julia Davis More Quotes by Julia Davis More Quotes From Julia Davis I love watching programmes about food. I always think, 'When I'm old, I'll take up baking.' There's something calming about watching the recipe and thinking, 'I'm going to make that' - and it's never going to happen. Julia Davis thinkfoodlovethinking As a child, I just found a lot of things quite difficult. I found school quite overwhelming. There were just too many people. I wish I could have gone to a school with about five people. And if I saw someone bullying someone else, for example - I don't mean because I'm a perfect person, because I'm really not - but I'd always be, 'Well, why?' Julia Davis childbullyingpeopleschool My desktop is really chaotic, and I'm always trying to work out where I am going to put all these ideas. Julia Davis i-amworktryingideas I do think, with people in comedy, you can have your time, as it were, and then you don't realise that it might have gone. I hope it hasn't for me. I think what I do is, I just... I just try to plough my own furrow, in a way. Julia Davis meyouhopetime I do use a laptop, but I'm very technophobic. I've never downloaded anything. I've never bought anything on Amazon. I'm really ridiculous. I don't know what it is. Julia Davis laptopanythingneverknow I think, in comedy, you only hit about one or two great characters in your career. Sometimes my character will be just a sketch... what is the funniest situation to put this person in? Julia Davis greatyousometimescharacter 'Robin's Test' is more contemporary than what I normally do. It's about couples going on a camping holiday for a 50th birthday. Two couples go, and then this other couple were going to come, but they've broken up, and so the man from that couple turns up, but with a new girlfriend that nobody likes - and I'm playing that character. Julia Davis manbrokenbirthdaycharacter I'd love to find a lifelong female film editor as Scorsese has with Thelma Schoonmaker. I think women are probably, without generalising, sensitive to subtle things as an editor. Julia Davis findthinkwomenlove That is one thing I really hate about working in TV - you have to shape episodes to exact time-lengths, do like 22 minutes, and it is just so against what you are making. Julia Davis justlikeyouhate I just try to put myself in the minds of all the characters. Julia Davis mindsjusttrymyself I think most people, including me, like to read gossipy things about others: revealing things that I love to read but I don't really want known about me. Julia Davis thinkmelovepeople I'm quite tactful, actually. I worry about whether people are all right. With my friends, obviously, conversations are quite free and uncensored, but I would never enjoy making someone feel uncomfortable at all. Julia Davis feelfriendsenjoypeople If I can laugh with people, it makes me feel safe with them. If I feel someone has no sense of humour, I find it really scary. I do it with the kids as well: put on stupid voices to lighten up the spirit or gee them along to do something. Julia Davis laughmestupidpeople If I claim I'm the opposite of my characters, then it'll just sound awful. But I tend to write the sort of things I'd never say because I'm not a very forceful person. Julia Davis personsayneversound I just find it funny and terrible: someone being very rude and overbearing over somebody who doesn't know how to deal with it. Maybe it's because I've experienced that sort of thing and I don't know how to say, 'You can't do that. You can't say that to me.' Julia Davis someonemeyoufunny I worked in a supermarket for a year; I worked in a finance department at a university, a pub, busking and singing. I tried to be a nanny for about three weeks. Julia Davis universityfinancesingingthree I'd love to do more 'Nighty Night,' but that's always down to commissions, really. It's weird as well because everyone's moved on. I don't know if I could get all those people back. Julia Davis weirdlovenightpeople To me, if something makes you laugh, that's heart-warming. It doesn't necessarily have to be friendly; it might just be the weirdest thing ever. Laughing makes me feel better. Julia Davis laughfeelmeyou My grandfather was a vicar, and there was quite a lot of churchgoing when I was growing up. It's a world that I spent a lot of time around. Julia Davis growing-upgrandfathertimeworld I love the spiritual side of religion, but the church, for me, is a place where I feel very repressed. Julia Davis mespirituallovereligion
