David Mitchell
David Mitchell
English stand up comedian and half of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb, alongside Robert Webb. He is best known for starring in and writing the Channel 4 series Peep Show, for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance in 2009. He has also written and starred in several sketch shows including The Mitchell and Webb Situation, That Mitchell and Webb Sound and, That Mitchell and Webb Look.
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth14 July 1974
CitySalisbury, England
If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill and concentration.
Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.
The human world is made of stories, not people.
Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.
Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.
Time is the speed at which the past decays.
Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.
The rain's innumerable hooves spatter on the streets and roofs.
If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.
Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.
Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.
An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.