Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies Quotes

“I'm a work in progress, and I hope I will never be complete”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies

“Smiley was the guy who made me realise that it was all right to succeed. No one had ever told me that. It was something I’d never considered before. That’s stayed with me ever since. It’s okay to succeed. I knew what it felt like to hurt and fail, those things were familiar to me. But the thought that I was allowed to succeed was something new and scary and something I needed to hear.”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“That next morning I woke up with one of the worst hangovers ever. I find a large, rabid badger has shit into my brain and down the back of my eyes. It’s horrible.”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“The first time I meet Smiley I’m terrified. He has a skinhead, bad teeth and scars from a bicycle crash on his face. He’s by far the most energetic, aggressive, funny lunatic I have ever met. I loved him and still do.”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“In the morning Mum introduces me to the wonders of the square sausage. Ironically I’d been doing exactly the same to her daughter the night before. (I have no idea what that means.)”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“year or so before meeting Stevie I’d decided to stop drinking. Holy Fuck. Big shout. I did not see that coming. It’d just got all too much for me, the hangovers, the anger, the aggro, the crushing shame of a wet bed. I couldn’t do it any more.”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“So much has been written about us sleeping together like some kind of modern Morecambe and Wise that it now feels pretty boring talking about it. At the time though it felt nice. There was never once a sense that at any point we’d start making each other’s bananas cry.”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“At first he lived on the couch for a bit, then he slept next to me on the floor but soon he became chilly so we topped and tailed. One of our favourite things to do was sit up in bed and read a big book together, usually a big glossy atlas or a book about Christmas. He’d hold one page and I’d hold the other.”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“The Mouse felt sure we’d get on. (As an aside, if you want me to dislike anyone tell me we’ll really get on.)”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“The crowd part and that’s when I see him for the first time, Simon fucking Pegg”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“Places I woke up after drinking 95% (all true): up a tree, on a large flat rock, in an empty, pitch-black bomb shelter (it took me an hour to find my way out), lying on the border fence trouser-less being licked awake by a giant Rottweiler.”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“I once woke up covered in a hundred partially digested cherries. I’d obviously fallen asleep eating cherries and had woken up, honked and gone back to sleep. It looked like a bloodbath. Waking up with the bed and walls covered in red liquid was absolutely terrifying. I believed my kidneys had been removed while I slept.”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“The doors hiss open and the bus fills with essentially thirty or so catwalk models. Sexy sexy sexy women in army uniforms carrying a selection of sexy assault rifles. I was frightened and nervous and terribly horny. The hot girl warrior that sits next to me senses my horniness, she doesn’t return my desperate attempt at a smile, she moves her Galil assault rifle around so it’s now sitting between us. Bit rude.”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“I want my mum, it’s an unfamiliar feeling for me. To want my mum. Maybe it’s not weird for me. I think I always wanted my mum really. Just not the Special Brew version.”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“The fact that my dad had failed, failed in business, failed as a man, to support us, his family. It killed him inside. The truth is not this at all, he didn’t fail me. What I saw was a brave man who gave everything he had to make things better. I watched a man get beaten down time and time again and get up, slowly sometimes, but get up and trudge forward. He has always been my inspiration.”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“I go through a heavy drugs phase round about now, lots of hash, poppers and tons of LSD. These were the times when I started going to my first, and indeed the first, raves. Raindance at Jenkins Lane was my first. I was terrified and I loved it. Others followed, unused farm buildings, weird old dilapidated manor houses near Basildon, industrial units near Tilbury, sometimes wine bars in Loughton.”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“Dagenham was also the place where I hospitalised my dad for the first time while doing DIY. I was five and Dad had stupidly given me a large claw hammer to drive a nail into a piece of timber. His last words to me were, ‘When I nod my head hit it.’ He nods his head and I bludgeon him”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“I’m not really a competitive person, at least I pretend to myself I’m not. I’ve never trusted people who are overly competitive. I don’t get it. I get the drive and commitment needed to see something through, a work ethic, what I never got were those people who are desperate to win at any cost. It’s just not in me. I think also when it comes to something as subjective as comedy or literature it’s difficult to accurately pick a winner. I feel if you’re willing to put your heart and your all into something as emotional as art in all its facets and forms then you’re a winner from the get-go.”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“The first time he showed me round the big freezers he pulled out a tray of frozen ice cream balls covered in cornflakes and bit into one like an apple. These were the deep-fried ice creams, an important part of Chiquito’s elaborate birthday treat that all customers got if it was their birthday. He bit into it and stuck it back on the tray. I’d never seen lunacy like it. A few days later I found myself alone in the freezer. Wanting to be as cool as Dave I grab an ice cream and stuff it in my mouth. Sadly though it wasn’t an ice cream. It was a ball of frozen shrimp butter. It was horrid and I vowed I would never randomly eat frozen balls of unknown matter again. It’s a promise I have never broken.”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“cigarette.”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“After months of falling and chasing, hoping this could be the time a fit, shallow girl finally falls for a tubby jokesmith, we were approaching the end.”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“One night we’re lying in bed. In my new bed in the house in Highgate I’m to share with the boys. She utters to me words that have stayed with me for ever. ‘I really like you but I wish you looked more like David Beckham.”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced

“Shadows bang and holler upstairs as I try and work things through; things other folk would quickly forget tend to stick around a little with me. I need to learn to let things go, move on. Stop analysing every tiny detail.”
― Nick Frost, Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies: The heartbreaking and hilarious memoir from the star of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced