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31 quotes by Nina Conti

Nina M. Conti (born 5 June 1974) is an English actress, comedian and ventriloquist. Among many characters, her primary on-stage puppet sidekicks are a white-haired Scottish grandmother named Granny and a deadpan and somewhat sinister monkey named Monk.
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My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself.

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Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other.

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It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it.

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The character of the monkey just grew from something out of his face and my granddad's personality. They fused, and that's what I ended up... →

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I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

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I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.

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If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

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The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it's in the moment, and it's seeing what will happen. It's not something that is scripted.

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I looked into studying psychoanalysis, wrote to the governing body and was about to start the year where they psychoanalyse you, four times a week... →

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Because I'm around comedians all the time, in my downtime I tend not to watch comedy. Something the whole family enjoys is 'You've Been... →

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I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for an hour in the evening. I get a... →

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I'm training to become a giggle doctor. It's a kind of hospital clown who changes the atmosphere on the ward and helps recovery. It's... →

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So many actors are lively-minded, creative people who just tread water in this awful way, waiting for the phone to ring and doing their hair for... →

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