Paul Merton Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“In 1986, I was attacked in the street as I helped Neil Mullarkey from the Comedy Store Players to put up posters. We were in the wrong place at the wrong time - midnight - and we were English. I got kicked in the head.”

“There's something magical about film, it's the ultimate for me, because it's kind of permanent - inasmuch as anything is. When I went to see Buster Keaton when I was about 14 and I came out of the cinema having really laughed at this film which had been made 50 years before, I thought: That's immortality. It's fantastic.”

“I was flying to the Maldives in 2000 when the plane went through turbulence - after that, I didn't fly for four years. Then a job came up in India, so I did a simulator flight and learnt about what goes on in the cockpit. I'm fine now.”

“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.'”

“All disc jockeys are without talent. Noel Edmonds - I can't stand Noel Edmonds.”

“Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.”

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

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

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