Paul Merton Quotes

I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.

Paul Merton

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• Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Interesting
  • Grow
  • Him

• I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.

  

  Harold Perrineau
  • Mind
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Interesting
  • Write

• It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Know

• The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Audience
  • Comedian
  • Out

• Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.

  

  Iman
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Beauty

• It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Life
  • Time
  • Interesting

• Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Someone

• The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Country
  • Art
  • Job

• To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Me

• It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Book
  • Interesting

• There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted to - but I don't reveal my secrets... I prefer certain things to remain personal; there have to be boundaries. And I don't think you need a scandal to have an interesting story.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Done
  • Past
  • Interesting

• I've met lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I spent so much time with him. He taught me discipline, which I hadn't been taught properly before. If I was, like, two seconds, late, he would kick off. Once, I was three minutes late, and he went absolutely berserk.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Time
  • Interesting

• It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Important
  • Interesting
  • Fall

• I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Live
  • Interesting
  • Me

• What's interesting is, in the months leading up to this, I was probably at the lowest ebb in my life. I was feeling just teenage angst. I didn't know if I wanted to continue living - that kind of despair. I was praying to a God I didn't know was listening.

  

  Bono U2
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• When politics is interesting, people go vote.

  

  Jacques Parizeau
  • People
  • Interesting

• Growing up was very interesting for me. If you were Haitian, people just automatically assumed that English was a second language. So they had a special class for my brother and I, but we spoke proper English.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Up
  • Interesting

• I prefer the word 'journeyman' to 'journalist' because I think that certainly, when you hear a story, you want to hear certain facts. But I also think what makes a story interesting is the points of view expressed therein.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Interesting

• I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Character
  • Interesting

• ...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating molds which appeared one by one on the slowly disintegrating mass of horse-dung. Microscopic molds are both very beautiful and absorbingly interesting. The rapid growth of their spores, the way they live on each other, the manner in which the different forms come and go, is so amazing and varied that I believe a man could spend his life and not exhaust the forms or problems contained in one plate of manure.

  

  David Fairchild
  • Interesting
  • Amazing
  • Problems

• I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Quit
  • Everest
  • Mount Everest

• I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.

  

  Paul Merton
  • Interesting
  • Comedian
  • Outsiders