People Quotes by Paul Merton

Paul Merton

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.

Longevity

Made

People

Paul Merton

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

Cheating

Laughter

People

Paul Merton

It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you’re young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It’s an instant connection.

Connections

Laughing

People

Paul Merton

The thing about improvisation is that it’s not about what you say. It’s listening to what other people say. It’s about what you hear.

Beautiful Day

Listening

People

Paul Merton

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

People

Way

World

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Beautiful Day

Blow

Book

Central Park

Cheating

Class

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Comedy

Connections

Contemporary

Couple

Creating

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Done

Dvds

Edinburgh

Election

Facts

Fashion

Firsts

Funny

Guy

Heart

Horse

House

Humorous

Interest

Interesting

Jobs

Jockeys

Laughing

Laughter

Listening

Loneliness

Lonely

Longevity

Made

Magazines

Men

Monday

Morning

New York

Night

Noel

Order

Oysters

Paper

Past

People

Politician

Potatoes

Reading

Real

Realised

Remember

Rich

School

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Sitting

Stereotype

Stories

Talent

Thinking

Trying

Victim

Vote

Watches

Way

Working Class

World

Years

Yelling

People Quotes by Paul Merton

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.

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

It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you’re young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It’s an instant connection.

The thing about improvisation is that it’s not about what you say. It’s listening to what other people say. It’s about what you hear.

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

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