Paul Merton Quotes
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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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.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
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Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.
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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.
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I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.
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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.
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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.
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I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.
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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.
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Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.
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I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within one story.
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When I started out, I wanted to be a serious actor. I never thought I'd get into comedy.
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I didn't fit the typical profile of a trader. I was an English major working on a novel at night. Most everyone else was a maths or economics major; most everyone else had relatives or family in banking.
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If the day ever comes when I am world No. 1, then great, but for me, the biggest dream was to win a slam, and I did it.
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I was trying to heal wounds all the time, whether it meant having affairs or having attitude. I didn't want to show how sad I was.
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Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
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I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.
