Paul Merton Quotes

• When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

  Paul Merton

  Lunes, Mañana, Pensar

  "I think I'm sane" by Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2007.

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• En mi primer día en New York, un tipo me preguntó si sabía dónde estaba Central Park. Cuando le dije que no, me dijo: ¿Te importa si te atraco aquí?

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  New York, Humorous, Central Park

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• Siempre me sorprende oír hablar de víctimas de accidentes aéreos tan gravemente mutiladas que tienen que ser identificadas por sus historiales dentales. Lo que no puedo entender es que, si no saben quién eres, ¿cómo van a saber quién es tu dentista?

  Paul Merton

  Divertido, Humor, Aire

  "Are these Britain's greatest wits ... or twits?" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2007.

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• At one point in the mid-Eighties I shared a promoter with the Smiths. One night, we were sitting backstage when Morrissey burst in, utterly distraught, sobbing his heart out. Turns out someone had thrown a sausage at him on stage during 'Meat Is Murder.'

  Paul Merton

  Heart, Night, Sitting

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• Si te alojas en una casa y vas al baño y no hay papel higiénico, siempre puedes deslizarte por las barandillas. No me digas que no lo has hecho.

  Paul Merton

  House, Done, Paper

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• Parece una contradicción, pero la persona tímida que se dedica a la interpretación tiene sentido, porque en cierto modo, cuando eres joven y tímido, hacer reír a la gente es una buena forma de hacer amigos. Es una conexión instantánea.

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  People, Laughing, Connections

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• Mi réplica favorita a un abucheo es decir: 'Perdona, estoy intentando trabajar aquí'. ¿Qué te parecería si me quedara gritando en el callejón mientras se la chupas a los transexuales?

  Paul Merton

  Jobs, Blow, Yelling

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• Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way.

  Paul Merton

  Gente, Mundo, Camino

  "I think I'm sane". Interview with Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2007.

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• Mis días de colegio fueron los más felices de mi vida; lo que debería darte una idea de la miseria que he soportado en los últimos veinticinco años.

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  School, Past, Years

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• I don't consider myself a fashion victim. I consider fashion a victim of me.

  Paul Merton

  Moda, Víctima

  2003 In the Daily Telegraph, 21 Apr.

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• En 1987, estaba en Edimburgo haciendo mi primer espectáculo unipersonal. Participé en un pateo con otros cómicos, me tropecé con los pantalones y oí un crujido en la pierna. Un par de días después entré en coma y me diagnosticaron una embolia pulmonar.

  Paul Merton

  Couple, Men, Comedian

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• I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?

  Paul Merton

  Age, Comedy, Remember

  "Paul Merton: 'Am I allowed to call myself working-class now?'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.

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  School, Potatoes, Firsts

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• Nunca he vendido mi historia, ni he hecho la revista ¡Hola! ni nada de eso. No soy culpable de explotar mi vida privada por dinero y luego decir: 'Oh, no quiero hablar de mi vida privada'. Nunca he cruzado esa línea.

  Paul Merton

  Stories, Done, Magazines

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• When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

  Paul Merton

  Creating, Remember, Realised

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• It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.

  Paul Merton

  Lonely, Loneliness, Real

  "Paul Merton interview: fears of a clown". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2000.

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

  Paul Merton

  Comedy, Interest, Contemporary

  "Paul Merton: 'Am I allowed to call myself working-class now?'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2011.

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

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  Thinking, Interesting, Comedian

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• When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.

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  Oysters, Guy, Edinburgh

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• I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties.

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  Dvds, Order, Trying

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• I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.

  Paul Merton

  Thinking, Election, Vote

  "I think I'm sane" by Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2007.

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• And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.

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  Laughing, Stereotype, Shyness

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• I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.

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  People, Made, Longevity

  "Paul Merton: 'Am I allowed to call myself working-class now?'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2011.

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• If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

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  Cheating, Laughter, People

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• In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

  Paul Merton

  Watches, Facts, Comedy

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