It’s a weird profession, as I don’t really consider myself an actor. I did at one point, and I went and started doing auditions, and I was so useless at them and so demoralised by doing audition after audition and not getting them and also not being able to take it in my stride at all. I just felt crushed and worthless. Julian Barratt Read Quote
I remember films I made at university, which are unbelievably pretentious. Poetry that I’d written that I delivered to camera, against a Venetian blind, strong shadows, looking slightly off-camera. Julian Barratt Read Quote
Pain – that is what life is about, isn’t it? Suffering with moments of reprieve. Julian Barratt Read Quote
I can act with either eye, but you’ve got to be twice as good as an actor to act with one eye. You need to put all your emotions just through one eye and really punch it out of that eye. I found it quite difficult to do at first, and then I found a technique that allowed me to act with one eye, which I patented. Julian Barratt Read Quote
Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you’re sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who are not really there. Julian Barratt Read Quote
I always dreamt of being in ‘Kerrang.’ That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then the jazz magazines took over. Julian Barratt Read Quote
