If you’re doing a job, and you secretly want to do a different job, you start to blame the job. I was blaming the teaching for that fact I wasn’t performing. I really felt I needed to follow a comedy career. Greg Davies Read Quote
I had a great time as a teacher, but I was just treading water, as a lot of us do. Greg Davies Read Quote
Kids are great. They are endlessly fascinating and bizarre. But I also think that if I had left them on their own for long enough, one of them would have been eaten. Greg Davies Read Quote
Man Down’ is not a serious study of the human condition: it is a balls-out attempt at making people laugh. So nobody in the show can afford to cling on to any vanity, because we’re always going to push the humiliation levels. Greg Davies Read Quote
I’ve never disguised the fact that I wasn’t happy in teaching. But the reason was that I wanted to do comedy. I would have been a very unhappy security guard or a very unhappy greengrocer. Greg Davies Read Quote
I wasn’t a happy teacher, but I also wasn’t an absolute psychopath like the teachers I portray on screen. Greg Davies Read Quote
It’s a strange thing when someone passes away. It’s always when you’re not expecting it that you’re affected by it. When we first started filming, we were filming with existing characters in a location that we’d never been before. Greg Davies Read Quote
My dad is the funniest human being I’ve ever met in my life – for years, I’d watch him hold court in whatever situation he was in; he was the most amazing raconteur. I often feel I’ve hijacked what should have been his career. Greg Davies Read Quote
