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I like my squishy, red, high-heeled Vivienne Westwood jelly shoes. They make you seem like you're much more of a go-er. — Nina Conti

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated. — Tom Conti

If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession. — Tom Conti

The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it's in the moment, and it's seeing what will happen. It's not something that is scripted. — Nina Conti

I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas. — Nina Conti

If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu. — Nina Conti

My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers. — Tom Conti

People should allow me to be many things, really give me the room to put things in another dimension. — Klaus Nomi

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating. — Tom Conti

I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house. — Nina Conti

I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home. — Tom Conti

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork. — Tom Conti

There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed. — Tom Conti

AMOS CONTI'S PRECEPT
Don't try too hard to be cool. It always shows, and that's uncool. — R.J. Palacio

I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English. — Nina Conti

There's the life we dream, the life we deserve, and the life we get. I'll take what I got over what I deserve any day. — Kate Jacobs

My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself. — Nina Conti

Once I'm on stage, there's just no time for a sip of water - I've always got my hands in puppets! My voice is raw by the time I finish. — Nina Conti

Do you know anyone who has a lease on life? It isn't a question of if; it's a question of when. — Ben Feldman

Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other. — Nina Conti

Oh, I've got glitter in my hair. That's not all that's in my hair, I'll tell you that. I glue it on every morning, whether I need to or not. — Mitt Romney

Don't try too hard to be cool. It always shows, and that's uncool.
-Amos Conti — R.J. Palacio

It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it. — Nina Conti

I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling. — Nina Conti

Every one to his taste, one man loves the priest and another the priest's wife, as the proverb says. — Nikolai Gogol

Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me. — Tom Conti

I would like to enlighten people. — Sammy Hagar

My dad is a much more flamboyant character than I am. I think that's why I couldn't see myself going into straight acting. I always just felt daft. — Nina Conti

I always said I wanted to be scientist, but I didn't really have the staying power. — Nina Conti

An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth. — Averroes

I am now known as Nina Conti's father and it's wonderful. — Tom Conti

With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job. — Nina Conti

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet. — Tom Conti

I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say. — Nina Conti