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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• It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

  

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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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• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

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• The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?

  

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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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• You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.

  

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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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• No one wants to see curvy women.

  

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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