Daft Quotes

I don’t want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.

Smartphones are so fabulous in so many ways that it seems daft to be nostalgic about the days when an image did not go round the world in a nanosecond.

When I trained with the Japanese team, there we’d be singing Oasis songs at the top of our voices at the top of the jumps. People thought we were daft.

I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me ‘Fishface’ on my first day at school. I’ve heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

I’ve been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.

Daft Punk‘s ‘One More Time’ remains one of my favorite ‘getting ready to go out tonight‘ songs.

When you‘re in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you’d look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.

I’m on the daft scale. I mean, I am a typical Virgo in some ways. I am driven. I like to be prepared. I make lists. But I also like to muck around.

When I was on ‘Loose Women‘ I never thought you have to keep it light. I had my own view. It sounds daft, but I forgot that there were cameras there because I got very heated in discussions.

I heard ‘Get Lucky’; it’s just not my taste. It’s great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing.

I remember arguing with kids on the street who were talking about Santa Claus. I said don’t be so daft – Santa Claus doesn’t come down our chimney. He’s an economic Santa Claus; he goes down chimneys where they’ve got money.

If you like Harry Hill, you’d really like Tony Law. He’s a Canadian comic who’s done a few appearances on ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’ and ‘8 out of 10 Cats.’ Nobody else could do his stand-up; it’s very idiosyncratic, very daft, very silly, but really well structured.

Mum‘s side of the family are daft, beautiful and brilliant.

On telly, if it’s not the right kind of show, I revert back to my ‘Girlie Show’ persona, become this daft, bawdy caricature of myself and I’m not actually like that, I’m actually quite – not clever, but smart with my words.

The Time It Takes’ is one of the most brilliantly daft shows I’ve ever been involved in – and that’s saying something.

All the music we’ve done with Daft Punk has got a wider, more diverse style; it has rock in it but it’s really full of special electronic beats… It’s not just rock so the music is different.

There were a few things going on then away from football, my nan and grandad passed away quite close together and, this might sound daft to anyone who doesn’t have a dog, but my dog passed away and that hurt me.

But I think I’m always going to be remembered for being the daft guy who had a chance at Rangers and never took it.

For all the different videos that we got to dress up in, I love fantasy stuff, so for ‘Radioactive,’ I felt like I was a warrior, and for ‘Daft Punk,’ I felt like I was a space warrior.

I love doing ‘I’m Sorry I Haven‘t a Clue‘ on Radio 4. It’s my favourite thing to do because it’s just daft: it’s not about the news. It’s not about anything.

A lot of television assumes the viewer is a bit daft, and I don’t think they are.

Daft Punk wouldn’t have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.

I always knew I could be a bit on the greedy side; I love cooking and eating and there in front of me was the evidence which I would have been daft to ignore. I could see visually where the fat was lying, basically all around my internal organs.

Everyone knows robots write the best books and make the best music. Just look at Daft Punk.

There is a legend. And to protest is daft.

When I started modeling, it was like, ‘Oh, she‘s too dark,’ and I kind of looked at them like, ‘You’re too daft.’

I’ve never heard Daft Punk; I’ve never heard a track of theirs in my life. They’re the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?

Any encounter, any situation in which there was a confrontation between us as children and our own parents, or teachers, when we did something daft, can arouse amazement and delight in our children. Theres something wonderful about knowing that our own parents were fallible.

I like to think I won’t change as a person, even if I go on to win 20 world titles. I will still be just a working-class lad from the Potteries, the same daft old me.

David Beckham is always seen as the thickest man on the planet, too daft to complete a jigsaw puzzle. But then you watch old footage of him playing and every time he plays a ball across the field, he’s intuitively working out the trajectory of the ball.

They’re great memories, not just as a footballer but as a person growing up – it sounds daft, but to come away from Liverpool to play the first-team football I needed. It’s a fantastic place, a huge football club and they helped me a lot. I’m grateful for coming through there.

Nothing frustrates me about the art world. It is a lovely place. There are many daft things that amuse me about it though.

I was lucky to spend so long on ‘Blue Peter‘ and ‘Newsround’ and if you are a bit giddy, like I am, a bit daft, like I am, and you are the kind of person who makes lots of public mistakes, like I do, then it’s sometimes hard for people to take me seriously.

I’m childish and silly. Most people tease me because I’m a bit daft.

Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.

When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.

Guetta, in general, what he did for the entire industry, same as Tiesto, same as Daft Punk, they paved the way for us. If Guetta didn’t exist, ‘Animals‘ would have never been played on the radio. Because of people like him and Avicii. But mainly Guetta.

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

Before ‘Titanic,’ yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it’s just a bit daft for me.

I think that my biggest influences are electronic acts. Daft Punk is probably my number 1, then Kanye West would be number 2 after that.

Mr. Philippe Zdar is a little bit like the uncle of the whole Daft Punk-Phoenix–Air thing in Paris and known for being in the group Cassius. It was interesting working with Philippe.

When we began Daft Punk, by the albums we made, by the interviews we did and by every opportunity we had we tried to break all the boundaries between musical genres.

The shirt thing just started one day when I bought one with a really interesting pattern, and people laughed at it, so I thought, ‘I’ll keep buying daft shirts with flowers on.’

Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there’s nothing wrong with seeing if there’s a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that’s a little bit daft and edgy to life.