Paul Merton Quotes

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

Paul Merton

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• I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Comedy
  • I Can
  • Where

• I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Audience

• Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Me
  • Interest
  • Characters

• I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • Night
  • Comedy

• I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Independent

• I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.

  

  Adam G. Sevani
  • Comedy
  • Like
  • Drama

• Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Different
  • Comedy
  • Loved

• I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Comedy
  • Less
  • Well Known

• As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Comedy
  • Gotta

• God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • God
  • Bad
  • Funny

• I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Comedy

• I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Interest

• You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Comedy

• Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Comedy
  • Play
  • Actor

• 'Community' is a comedy show, and one of the characters happens to be a Christian. I do think they have been very careful to make sure everyone is the butt of the joke for various reasons.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Think
  • Community
  • Comedy

• For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Me
  • Comedy
  • Violence

• But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny.

  

  Matthew Fox
  • People
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

  

  Jane Addams
  • Women

• I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Country
  • History
  • Negative

• I think art, especially literature, has the particular power to immerse the viewer or reader into another world. This is especially powerful in literature, when a reader lives the experience of the characters. So if the characters are human and real enough, then readers will feel empathy for them.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • World
  • Real
  • Art

• Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.

  

  George Crumb
  • Writing

• I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

  

  Paul Merton
  • Comedy
  • Interest
  • Contemporary