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Johnny Vegas

lines on the record: 38
first: 2010-10-03
most recent: 2010-10-03
sittings or episodes: 1
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“A kennel. A kiln a pottery kiln. I'd although when I finished at college I was never financially gonna feed myself or look after anybody for what I made I really miss it's an incredibly therapeutic thing to do”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Final record is Don McLean Vincent. And I've chose this because growing up Tended to listen to music that was knocking about the house with Mr Blint's. But I was very fortunate there was some quality music lying around. And Dom McLean, especially now I sit down and I'm trying to do a lot more writing now and I both almost love and loathe him because If I can just write one of these lines at any point in my life, you know, I've created anything. beautiful as a song like this. could professionally walk away a very happy”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A lot better than I actually expected. I've actually made it That was one point in my life I actually thought when I reach forty. I hope it's the start of a far less dramatic chapter. I would like just be that period of on the”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that's it exactly, and it's It can be. The performance out of your life, it can be a very shallow existence. And I just couldn't forgive himself if he thought he came second because I always did with my parents.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Get by. Let's have some more music then. Discovery. It's the Lars, and there she goes. Now for some reason I'd probably come across her so melancholy while I've been talking to you. I love love songs I live for love and it's such an influential presence in my life from somebody who told himself you know what I mean that this probably wouldn't be for me and that relationships that just wouldn't happen From being some Bus a loner and probably got off on the notion of being a lorner. I now have allayed in my life that just That smile makes come along and make you realise that my life isn't best lived on my own With Michael, I'll love me until the day I die. Nothing can ever change that whether I've struggled through my faith, through drinking through anything. That one guarantee is made the world of evidence to my life.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I always felt like I was never fully doing justice to something that somebody else had written. Your parents didn't come to see you do your stand up, but I'm imagining they watched the stuff you've done. Yeah, they do. What do they think of it? I mean, it's really nice to finally do something like with Benedom, something that my room can discuss without bringing shame upon the family. Yeah, valet. I'm bursting between St. Ellington, Dublin at the moment. But yes, my home is St Alens. And Dublin is from Isons of Love. Yeah, my fianc ⁇ e lives in Dublin. I travelled between the two my son lives in London but comes up to the north west. When we have time together You're living there. Dublin Is but it's a life that makes me very happy. I'm very contented with the way life is at the moment, so...”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, on it. Right. Yeah, the next song, The Beautiful South Knitz Domino Man. We attribute two pubs, and that pub culture. Was the beautiful South and Domino man. You are now Johnny Vegas, of course, a well-respected actor, the ragged trouser philanthropist, a bleak house, happiness, Benedorm was the big ITV hit watched by nine million people. Did you decide to become an actor or did people just call your agents and say I think he might be quite good at this? It was something I quietly wanted to do, but without having the formal training. I didn't really feel very confident about putting myself out there and saying I want to act because I thought if you can't do it. Did you feel quite self-conscious to be in? actors. I always have, and it's something I've never really got to grips with. You still do? Yeah”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I see it as something that's done a lot for me, but something that can turn on you at any moment and take it all back. I enjoy drinking and I always wanted to be able to enjoy your drink and I never wanted the drink to get to a point where you go. The drink or nothing else, do you know what I mean? If you can't strike that happy balance between Out on Of your socializing, but not a part of your everyday existence. And can you strike the balance? I think I can Again very afraid when I was talking about my permanence before. And now they came through difficult situations. Can strike that balance when things are going good. a strong enough personality to be able to strike that balance. emotional duress are you? I have fun as well sometimes. Madame incredibly earnest, you know, that you go a light balloon.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nothing within my personal life I went through. separation and a divorce I was burning. You because I wanted people to know I was desperately upset. What sort of a husband were you? You honestly think. Lasted long enough to find out. How long are you married for? Less than less than two years. I think from a relationship like that, it's not been guarded about it, I think. Those things that when it's very bitter, it'd be a long time. You can sit down and actually look at your own mistakes within a relationship within a marriage. Are you not drinking now? I do drink now. drink as served me wonderfully it helped me create Johnny”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He did whilst I was trying to craft Vegas my usual approach was to just get as drunk as possible and I can count one hand the times that I've gone on stage. without At its worst, how badly did the drinking affect your life? I mean, what were the points at which things were out of control? There was a period in my life after college. When I resentful even towards friends for There was nothing happening in my life, but I wasn't making anything happen. I'd always drank to socialize, I'd always drank. This wasn't this was drinking in a room on your own. blame in the world for you not being well you thought it should be. Then oddly enough the career took you back toward that path of, you know, I thought I could. it was arrogant that I thought I could go out and play. Holidays were but then put Johnny back in his box.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Cat number five is Colin Hay and it's waiting for my real life to begin. This has become a song in the past few years that In darker moments. This is a song that you've got to believe that you're going to come through. If it's not enough for the circa yourself, then for other people. Give me that little bit of a push to just get off my backside and get on with it. Be still my love Open up your heart. Let the light shine. Don't you understand I already have a plan? waiting for my real life to begin.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think so, and I think it established me outside of the northwest. As a festival, it was brilliant. Within three days we'd sold. Pretty much sold out the run. I loved it. It was just one long, very hard part of it. with the gig thrown in for good measure. You know what I mean? Everything came together and people got it. Everybody was getting it. Critics were getting it. Audiences were loving it. Her effect.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It did, but I think the relief. Again, I think what came together was an idea. Somebody at the time that was very nice and very understanding and so I didn't fall into the group below style.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It didn't I'd got to without ever having had a girlfriend. I'd much live easter in my life when I thought I was just going to be single and that. Just wasn't meant for me I wasn't a relationship sort of person that perhaps was Better off on my own. I've pretty much just resigned myself to the fact that. Women didn't see me the same way that I saw them.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We're going to hear pulp and common people. When I was at college, There was a lot of resentment building up that I was only really aware of when I started doing genivics and performing. One of them was inverted to knob about it, and it was a resentment of these people who just had everything. If you called your daddy could stop it all and my daddy couldn't. And this song came along and just said it perfectly. Thank you, Pope. Thank you, Jar”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“which after four years and putting them through all that financial pressure is not really what you want to earn from your graduate son, is”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did. I got a full grant. My dad had warned me before I'd left to try and save some money because what they'd experienced with Catherine was that there was a lot of... Far better off background than us, and I was quite But then in the second year the party was over there was no money and my family couldn't afford to send me that money and suddenly a friend in need is a pest. Forgive me, it was a very. Bad time when I started to resent me. When I first went there, I resented my parents for not. Being able to support me. Yeah, I graduated and then realised. Wasn't the most commercially uh successful move I've ever made a degree When have I ever gone into the door and the volcard upside teapot mender? I sat on the train with my dad. I've made a huge mistake.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I finished school with a few O levels, but I think in a way it's very disappointing in terms of what I academically should have been able to achieve. My sister in the meantime pushed ahead with her, went away and did studied fashion. He can't pave the way to go to college none of us had been to college before and when I went to sixth form it was the first classroom, the first environment where a teacher basically said you come in and work when you want. You couldn't get me out of that”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Scrummage came into my life because struggled to fit in. I just wanted to be the normal kid once I got back home. You know what I mean? I wanted to drink cider standby bus stops, do everything everybody else did. I just This thing hanging over me, that's the priest boy. I just wanted to blend”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The truck I've chosen now is Love Rain O me. Who is one of them bands I could have chosen any song but this one in particular At a point where somebody who was the most unsuccessful teenager with women. This was a lug sog that also contained all my frustrations having been every girl's best friend, but not the blood they actually wanted to kiss.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think like so many I left For a long time I felt very guilty as so on the left I almost wanted to tack everybody else with me.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I wasn't no. And it's a very difficult thing to talk about in public because. People who It really up to me to drag that into the spotlight. Discuss that.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I felt like there was, I felt on me, I felt on myself. I'd let a lot of people down. Everything in my life has been about you laugh things off, you make a joke. Very hard because things were things that went on at that school. It was very difficult to come back at weekends and people say what you're doing is a wonderful thing. You quietly going, it's not a wonderful thing, and it's not a wonderful blurse.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In the fourth term I stuck out my first year and Me, the play Very little to do with religion and a lot more to do with regime. I'd come on for Christmas. And we'd gone to benediction and we were due to try back that evening. And I turned to me, I hadn't told him that. I didn't want to go back. and my mum was in clouds of tears, and the worst thing is at the time I I thought I'd broke her heart by leaving. It was quite the opposite as it turns out with such a relief for it.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There was a series event that made me realise I didn't want it to be a priest. I didn't like the regime. It just seemed to be a place that wanted to strip you of any individuality.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It really hadn't sunk him. What was happening until the first night? You in this big important school in its own grounds I suppose everybody else was just horrendously whom. It was shell shock.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's come out in conversations now, and I think. A lot of the negative press of light, I think it's something that my mum suspected.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, it was fantastic, the ambition of every parish is to produce its own priest. But I know for certain my mum really didn't want me to go.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Came about I, saying that I wanted to be a priest from a young age, but I think saying it because I enjoyed the reaction it got.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The next record is Deacon Blue and Dignita Borfarents held themselves. A very difficult time, and throughout the 80s. unemployed and I every day must just have been that heartbreaking thought of was an expert of money coming from. They just got on, but they got on with an amazing amount of dignity. We came through Remarkable Melbourne, it could have been, you know what I mean? It could have been a lot worse, and it must have destroyed a lot of other families.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'd have been about nine. within a year I'd have been heading off to seminary school. Was a lot of equipment and uniform and things that you needed to have. There was a realization that although they were trying to keep it from me that That was bankrupt in them.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was very There was a definite incident one day when I was nagging my dad over an ice cream. He took me outside to the end of the street. Just said to me, I got laid off today. There'd been other children at school whose dads had been laid off. There's that little bit of dread of kids coming back in the same school uniform pants, getting shorter and the nicknames, poving things. Then he went, so look, here's some money, get a nice cream, but do me a favor, don't. The last thing I wanted I felt like such a pain. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? I just felt awful. I felt like this spoiled brat then who'd been nagging and nagging and nagging and I should have understood and I didn't.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was one of those mornings that my dad got us up for school. As we were leaving the school, you went, right, whose rabbits going in the pot today? I genuinely thought he was joking because it was such a ridiculous concept. He came in from school and he was out in the back cleaning out the hutch, and I sort of looked round the garden and asked me dad where it was and he went, it's there. I looked at behind me and it was. It was skinned and hangin' up. I couldn't quite believe it, so there was no tears, I didn't react, my sister went absolutely berserking my mum. Yeah, and my dad had always claimed that rabbits were livestock. But we've never eaten one before. My dad had been laid off. That might have been not in itself a breakdown or something, but I just wonder if it was a man at the end of his tether.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This uptour is Johnny Cash and Hurt. again having a son now. And I think it was D. Martin, I think it was his family. do with the Bervans and yet the children are expected to the parents seized Greg and Eternity gave everything away to the public, but gave nothing back to their own family, and I didn't want that. And I didn't want that for my family and the people closest to me Got to know that they come first. And I don't want to leave my son with just a pilot reviews. Edinburgh, I want to be his dad who can guide him in the same way that my father guided me.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I found a popularity through his self destruction. Suddenly the more you damage yourself, the more People are drown And that can be quite addictive.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think it would jan it what started off as something very well constructed. With absolute parameters. Was a danger point of other things in your life. The lines were blurred for the wrong reasons. So”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm not entirely sure because I didn't wear myself before I started, but it would have been. forced on five. I was just judging it by trousers. Amanessa slightly more generous with the size itself. Yes, I know. Getting down to a 38 was a big whoop and hollow moment for me from the changing room.”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it was certainly right for Johnny as a character. I think it does but I'd run out of anger. People can see when something is genuine and when something's manufactured and although I always enjoyed mixing facts with a little bit of fiction. There is a point where you go life's actually turned around and been very good to”
2010-10-03 · Desert Island Discs · Johnny Vegas · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source