Noi yee sil nui (2008)

Actors

• Hing-Ka Chan (producer)
• Hing-Ka Chan (director)
• Clifton Ko (actor)
• Hing-Ka Chan (writer)
• Charles Heung (producer)
• Tiffany Chen (producer)
• Gigi Leung (actress)
• Ronald Cheng (actor)
• You-Nam Wong (actor)
• Andy On (actor)
• Stephy Tang (actress)
• Fai-hung Chan (actor)
• Tien You Chui (actor)
• Amy Chin (producer)
• Amy Chin (writer)

Genres

• Comedy

Famous quotes by Jack Dee:

"I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers."

"One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it."

"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."

"The film industry is like Anne Robinson - always on the look-out for a new face."

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

"I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature."

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

"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."

"If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all."

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

"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."

"Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'"

"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."

"But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible."

"The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up."

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

"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 always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion."

"It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it."

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

"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."