Stephen Merchant (Stephen James Merchant) Quotes

People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren Beatty. I honestly can't impress that upon people enough.

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• I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.

  

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• I have a great office.

  

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• With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

  

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• Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.

  

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• I did charity events with the Cup all the time.

  

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• I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?

  

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• Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.

  

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• You were born as the one you are.

  

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• I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.

  

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• No one wants to see curvy women.

  

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• Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

  

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• People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren Beatty. I honestly can't impress that upon people enough.

  

  Stephen Merchant
  • People
  • Fame
  • Impress