Best Rik Mayall Quotes & Sayings

When you're an experienced celeb - which I am - you sometimes just need a bit of space, when you're not 'on'. I'm always on! — Rik Mayall

With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in. — Rik Mayall

On stage you can group 200 people together and scare them or embarrass them or whatever. You can't do that on TV. You have to use the conventions, that's why Kevin (Turvey) works so well. — Rik Mayall

Love is the answer. — Rik Mayall

I was in a coma for five days - I was dead longer than Jesus before he was raised from the dead. — Rik Mayall

You perform for a different audience each night. People who don't understand just think that you go out there every night and do the same thing, but you don't - you have to find out who they are and give it to them. — Rik Mayall

I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life. — Rik Mayall

I don't want people to know who I am. — Rik Mayall

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to! — Rik Mayall

Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it. — Benjamin Rush

I'm frightened of interviews. — Rik Mayall

I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I live on the limit, Vyvyan. The limit, because I'm a rider at the gates of dawn and I take no prisoners! — Rik Mayall

considering that lexicons and dictionaries are practically a high art form in German- speaking countries. The entry merges Essad Bey and Wolfgang von Weisl into one person. It explains that "Wolfgang (von) Weisl" also used the pseudonyms Leo Noussimbaum, Essad Bey, and Kurban Said - and hence the Austrian journalist, who otherwise had only a travel book and a book on Austrian artillery to his credit, suddenly was the prolific author of approximately twenty works of fiction and nonfiction — Tom Reiss

I've always had live audiences. — Rik Mayall

One of them, the philosopher Philostratus, summed up the idea by saying that the great athletes of the past "made war training for sport, and sport training for war." Turning Spartan logic on its head, Plutarch even claimed that the Thebans at the great Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC defeated the Spartans because they had done more training at the palaestra; he also wrote that sport, wrestling specifically included, was an imitation and exercise of war. — Martin Van Creveld

Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy. — Rik Mayall

I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad. — Rik Mayall

I don't have moments of weakness. I'm Rik Mayall. — Rik Mayall

I think that most of my books are part of some process of self-education, often about the places I go to. Most of all, they are about the peculiar tension between institutional loyalty and loyalty to oneself; the mystery of patriotism, for a Brit of my age and generation, where it runs, how it should be defined, what it's worth and what a corrupting force it can be when misapplied. All that stuff is just in me and it comes out in the characters. I don't mean to preach, but I know I do, and I'm a very flawed person. It's quite ridiculous. — John Le Carre

It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say. — Rik Mayall

The magician was studying her face with his green eyes. "Your face is wet," he said worriedly. "I hope that's spray. If you've become human enough to cry, then no magic in the world - oh, it must be spray. Come with me. It had better be spray. — Peter S. Beagle

With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best. — Rik Mayall

Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you. — Rik Mayall

Found my foundation it was underneath me all along. On this path I'm on I never walk alone — Jack Johnson

It has been my experience that law enforcement reports are littered with fabrications, inaccuracies, omissions, fraud, fantasies and willful blindness. — Steven Magee

We need to participate directly in the evolution of consciousness, which, at its core, is the evolution of love. — Marc Gafni

When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in money. It was in August, 1889. She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth. Whatever touch of regret at parting characterised her thoughts, it was certainly not for advantages now being given up. A gush of tears at her mother's farewell kiss, a touch in her throat when the cars clacked by the flour mill where her father worked by the day, a pathetic sigh as the familiar green environs of the village passed in review, and the threads which bound her so lightly to girlhood and home were irretrievably broken. — Theodore Dreiser

I ought to be groovy and be able to say the enemy is this and the enemy is that ... but I've never been very good at ... I don't want to have to answer questions I don't know the answer to properly. I have an opinion. — Rik Mayall

It is the nature of the pig, that if there's nothing to stop her from stepping into abreuvoir - then it will. Nothing will stop bureaucracy from continuing to serve us "good" and protecting us from "evil" - if we'll let them do that. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke