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Top 25 Jack Dee Quotes (2025 Update)

Jack Dee Quote: “I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.”

1. “I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.”

Jack Dee Quote: “Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.”

2. “Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.”

Jack Dee Quote: “Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.”

3. “Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.”

Jack Dee Quote: “I’m not really part of any group or clique or gang because that’s always been my nature.”

4. “I’m not really part of any group or clique or gang because that’s always been my nature.”

Jack Dee Quote: “People who are pro smacking children say, ‘It’s the only language they understand.’ You could apply that to tourists.”

5. “People who are pro smacking children say, ‘It’s the only language they understand.’ You could apply that to tourists.”

Jack Dee Quote: “Depression is something that has always figured in my life but now I’m dealing with it. I wish I’d done this years ago because it’s been really helpful.”

6. “Depression is something that has always figured in my life but now I’m dealing with it. I wish I’d done this years ago because it’s been really helpful.”

Jack Dee Quote: “I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.”

7. “I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.”

Jack Dee Quote: “They call it ‘surfing’ the net. It’s not surfing. It’s typing in your bedroom.”

8. “They call it ‘surfing’ the net. It’s not surfing. It’s typing in your bedroom.”

Jack Dee Quote: “I don’t like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don’t like you and that’s all there is to it.”

9. “I don’t like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don’t like you and that’s all there is to it.”

Jack Dee Quote: “And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I’m laughing or smiling.”

10. “And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I’m laughing or smiling.”

Jack Dee Quote: “One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.”

11. “One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.”

Jack Dee Quote: “My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.”

12. “My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.”

Jack Dee Quote: “I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn’t.”

13. “I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn’t.”

Jack Dee Quote: “I have had issues with depression all my life, and it’s probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often – and this is quite common with comics – a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.”

14. “I have had issues with depression all my life, and it’s probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often – and this is quite common with comics – a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.”

Jack Dee Quote: “One of my friends went on a murder weekend, now he is doing life for it.”

15. “One of my friends went on a murder weekend, now he is doing life for it.”

Jack Dee Quote: “The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.”

16. “The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.”

Jack Dee Quote: “In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.”

17. “In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.”

Jack Dee Quote: “I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.”

18. “I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.”

Jack Dee Quote: “Make lots of money. Enjoy the work. Operate within the law. Choose any two of three.”

19. “Make lots of money. Enjoy the work. Operate within the law. Choose any two of three.”

Jack Dee Quote: “I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long – I didn’t function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.”

20. “I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long – I didn’t function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.”

Jack Dee Quote: “I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.”

21. “I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.”

Jack Dee Quote: “In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.”

22. “In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.”

Jack Dee Quote: “I love mixing with comedians when I’m working with them, but when I’m not I don’t feel the need to hang around with them.”

23. “I love mixing with comedians when I’m working with them, but when I’m not I don’t feel the need to hang around with them.”

Jack Dee Quote: “The film industry is like Anne Robinsonalways on the look-out for a new face.”

24. “The film industry is like Anne Robinsonalways on the look-out for a new face.”

Jack Dee Quote: “The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.”

25. “The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.”

Jack Dee Quote: “If I’ve inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it’s really backfired very badly on me.”

26. “If I’ve inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it’s really backfired very badly on me.”

Jack Dee Quote: “I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.”

27. “I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.”

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Jack Dee Quote: “I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.”

28. “I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.”

Jack Dee Quote: “Whenever you’re in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.”

29. “Whenever you’re in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.”

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