Once I became a total buffoon, it was so liberating.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.
I don't mind being a buffoon.
With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
The slavery at Bufford's was too fresh in my recollection to let me care to bind myself again. From the time that I took my nose off that lithographic stone, I have had no master, and never shall have any.
During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
When did you last have fun being dignified?
I think some people see me as being some kind of lovable, bumbling buffoon, and I'm actually quite mouthy and sharp, and that doesn't compute.
So it was good for me to play a likable person and it was just an amazing situation to be in.
You're never going to see me playing a buffoon.
I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.