And, he adds, he does not see his comedy as Australian, thinks it too "jumpy" – he sees himself as closer to an antipodean Woody Allen.
He was delicious at that age, unknown to himself: skinny and jumpy, shadowed lashes dipping on his freckled cheeks, mouth twisted sardonically, a light of wit and nerves playing in his expression.
Nicolas Sarkozy is trying to reverse his spiraling fortunes by shaking off his old reputation as a jumpy and flashy Hot Rabbit and recasting himself as a sober and quiet family man.
But he didn't let the opportunity to take a dig at Obama go by either, offering an interpretation that made the president seem jumpy, amateur, and a bit too sure of himself.
'Niall was beginning to be a bit of a handful until we started the movements … It just calmed him down immensely to express himself through movement' (Alice, 21/1/10).and, occasionally, the whole group, 'Very jumpy energy – half-term coming up.
He was in motion himself, moving across the stage with angled elbows and twitching hips like a jumpy stick figure.
