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

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

- Jack Dee

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

- Jack Dee

Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's alwa…

- Jack Dee

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

They call it 'surfing' the net. It's not surfing. It's typing in your bedroom

- Jack Dee

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 rath…

- Jack Dee

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 sc…

- Jack Dee

Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.

- Jack Dee