Stephen Merchant quote: "When I started to mention to people who know about such things, 'I'm doing this game, 'Portal 2', they got very excited, suddenly. More excited than anything I've ever done before, weirdly. Gamers are incredibly enthusiastic about the stuff they love."

I'm looking for a woman with the body of Kelly Brook and the mind of Stephen Fry.
STEPHEN MERCHANT

John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They we...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

I have experienced bad dating and ineptitude with women all across the globe, from Vietnam to Paris....
STEPHEN MERCHANT

People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren B...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it see...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

I'm always jealous of Johnny Depp's sense of style, but if I tried to get away with a floppy...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

I suffered when I was in my late twenties and early thirties. I was awkward, I stuck out, I was nerd...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of atte...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

I know that this sounds grand, but I don't try to compete with other people. I like to think the...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

People don't mind insulting the tall. We're supposed to be fine with being awkward and skinn...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

I've jokingly said that everything I'm doing now is filling up the hours before I die, but I...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

Remember that film 'Sliding Doors,' when John Hannah woos Gwyneth Paltrow by reciting Monty ...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

I've always been a fan of physical comedy. It kind of hits you in a different way; it bypasses t...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier.
STEPHEN MERCHANT

Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

When we did 'The Office,' no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could ...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

I just always remember there being an ability to amuse schoolmates. Not in a kind of 'dance-arou...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

There's this way pop culture has been rammed down our throats that people think that if they wer...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a cr...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I've raised my daughter with no television.
NATALIE MERCHANT

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
NATALIE MERCHANT

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!
NATALIE MERCHANT

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to delib...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself int...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
NATALIE MERCHANT

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mas...
NATALIE MERCHANT

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index...
NATALIE MERCHANT

It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, an...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
NATALIE MERCHANT

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-close...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
NATALIE MERCHANT

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension i...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it'...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
NATALIE MERCHANT

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so...
NATALIE MERCHANT

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the...
LARRY MERCHANT

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
NATALIE MERCHANT

The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more of...
TAMZIN MERCHANT

[Her husband, violinist Sanford Allen, rehearses Bach on his Stradivarius next door, for a recital u...
ISMAIL MERCHANT

We may be able to have antibiotics that you take orally, potentially also antibiotics that you could...
MARK MERCHANT

The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck.
LARRY MERCHANT

I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fi...
LARRY MERCHANT

We (the county executive staff) came up with an extensive list of potentially interested parties and...
JENNIFER MERCHANT

The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.
ISMAIL MERCHANT

Icons are our windows into the Kingdom of Heaven, transporting us beyond our brokenness and helping ...
CORNELIA MERCHANT

I think looking at restoration from a purely (environmental) standpoint may mean tearing people's ho...
JENNIFER MERCHANT

We had some folks that thought it was too business oriented so we added two more seats.
JENNIFER MERCHANT

I recommend the deletion of any numerical standards (goals) until further studies can be made.
JENNIFER MERCHANT

I'm still unclear on how indicators and standards are not only going to be used, but how they are (b...
JENNIFER MERCHANT

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only jus...
ISMAIL MERCHANT

Don't shop when you're hungry or in a grumpy mood. You need to feel happy and confident to m...
TAMZIN MERCHANT

You will have an opportunity to appreciate the magnificence of Orthodox iconography.
CORNELIA MERCHANT

We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or c...
ISMAIL MERCHANT

Neither guy wanted to yield. It was the third fight of their trilogy, and it was that important.
LARRY MERCHANT

It's like a commercial. It's flashy with it's 'Life is good. Life is happy. Life is perfect.' But in...
JOSIE MERCHANT

I'm still a little perplexed at Carrie Moore and Casey Rost. If we see them again, certainly, we're ...
SUZY MERCHANT

I just wanted to get all this stuff in one place, ... A lot of it was scattered around or out of pri...
NATALIE MERCHANT

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
NATALIE MERCHANT

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
NATALIE MERCHANT

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
NATALIE MERCHANT

I'm in the public eye. I've sold 14 million records -- so 14 million individuals have bought my reco...
NATALIE MERCHANT

That kind of violence is dangerous to me, to be beamed out via satellite to the rest of the country....
NATALIE MERCHANT

We may be able to have antibiotics that you take orally, potentially also antibiotics that you could...
MARK MERCHANT

Retrospective 1990-2005 [Limited Edition]
NATALIE MERCHANT

I haven't seen Johnson enough in the past to know, but he's a guy who's fought all these years, 16 y...
LARRY MERCHANT

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture...
ISMAIL MERCHANT

There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobster...
LARRY MERCHANT

This is our first fund-raiser.
CORNELIA MERCHANT

The parish is hoping to raise funds to have the icon of Christ painted at the apex of the dome above...
CORNELIA MERCHANT

I believe that at the very root of our humanity is a passion to create value with heart, to work alo...
NILOFER MERCHANT

It's hard to break through the clutter of fighters out there trying to get attention,
LARRY MERCHANT

This team is gonna get murdered.
LARRY MERCHANT

Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.
LARRY MERCHANT

I think it all depends on how good this fight is. I don't know how to rank it. If this turns out to ...
LARRY MERCHANT

He's so good, you wonder what's wrong with him.
LARRY MERCHANT

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
STEPHEN B. STEPHEN LEACOCK

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imaginat...
STEPHEN COVEY

Demons manifest themselves in people in different ways. For instance, out of nowhere, somebody can b...
STEPHEN BALDWIN

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, ...
STEPHEN COVEY

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good r...
STEPHEN CHOW

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whethe...
STEPHEN KING

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we...
STEPHEN COVEY

A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statemen...
STEPHEN COVEY

Listen with your eyes for feelings.
STEPHEN COVEY

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inward...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
STEPHEN KING

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invadin...
STEPHEN KING

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
STEPHEN KING

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find th...
STEPHEN KING

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long a...
STEPHEN KING

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
STEPHEN KING

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your fe...
STEPHEN KING

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.
STEPHEN KING

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
STEPHEN KING

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small ...
STEPHEN KING

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
STEPHEN COVEY

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
STEPHEN COVEY

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
STEPHEN COVEY

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
STEPHEN COVEY

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along ...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
STEPHEN COVEY

The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain...
STEPHEN HUNTER

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.
STEPHEN KINZER

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. ...
STEPHEN BALDWIN

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important o...
STEPHEN DOUGLAS

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
STEPHEN KING

Get busy living, or get busy dying.
STEPHEN KING

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
STEPHEN GARDINER

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
STEPHEN KING

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn...
STEPHEN COLBERT

Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.
STEPHEN HAWKING

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my...
STEPHEN HAWKING

During the 1990s the United States sought to impose the 'Washington Consensus' on Latin Amer...
STEPHEN KINZER

My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a ...
STEPHEN DOBYNS

I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to ...
STEPHEN COLBERT

I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any ...
STEPHEN DALDRY

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is r...
STEPHEN HAWKING

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to the...
STEPHEN BATCHELOR

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of...
STEPHEN PHILLIPS

I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.
STEPHEN REA

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a ...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY

Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures,...
STEPHEN HARPER

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've be...
STEPHEN CURRY

I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check mys...
STEPHEN COLLINS

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner...
STEPHEN FRY

Growing up, it was about finding a way to entertain myself outdoors. We spent all the summers on the...
STEPHEN COLLETTI

Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.
STEPHEN BREYER

Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patr...
STEPHEN KINZER

secrets are a problem, maybe the biggest problem of all. They weigh on the mind and take up space in...
STEPHEN KING

Wanting to know things and do things is what the human race is all about. Exploration, Gwendy! Both ...
STEPHEN KING

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.
STEPHEN COVEY

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative an...
STEPHEN COVEY

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM

I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary...
STEPHEN HOPKINS

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremos...
STEPHEN HARPER

I remember that Martin Hannett once had an idea of making a record and burying it in his garden so t...
STEPHEN MORRIS

As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other ...
STEPHEN KINZER

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.
STEPHEN DORFF

Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is bein...
STEPHEN KINZER

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literatu...
STEPHEN STILLS

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he ...
STEPHEN AMBROSE

I'm your full blown charismatic evangelical freak daddy.
STEPHEN BALDWIN

My African heritage is a part of reggae music roots, and the concept is that the album, 'Revelat...
STEPHEN MARLEY

Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wea...
STEPHEN MARLEY

All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, wh...
STEPHEN HAWKING

Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and...
STEPHEN LEACOCK

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carrie...
STEPHEN LEACOCK

I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume...
STEPHEN DALDRY

In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an exp...
STEPHEN COLBERT

The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got i...
STEPHEN COLE

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go s...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mo...
STEPHEN GRAHAM

Basketball is booming, and it's not just an Under Armour standpoint: it's about the game its...
STEPHEN CURRY

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...re...
STEPHEN KING

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.
STEPHEN BALDWIN

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organiz...
STEPHEN COVEY

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
STEPHEN FRY

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're i...
STEPHEN KING

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
STEPHEN KING

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
STEPHEN SWID

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
STEPHEN LEACOCK

He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a ...
STEPHEN KING

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is ...
STEPHEN HAWKING

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed ...
STEPHEN KING

The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing th...
STEPHEN HAWKING

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and wha...
STEPHEN LEVINE

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
STEPHEN LEVINE

(on love) It's the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always se...
STEPHEN KING

But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one ...
STEPHEN FRY

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the...
STEPHEN KING

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked ...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY

The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. A...
STEPHEN KINZER

Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, w...
STEPHEN MARLEY

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRY

After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
STEPHEN KINZER

Your mind is the channel of it all. It feeds your soul, your heart, everything. It comes from your t...
STEPHEN MARLEY

If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.
STEPHEN CLARKE

There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the num...
STEPHEN FRY

That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversa...
STEPHEN KENDRICK

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.
STEPHEN KING

His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead dec...
STEPHEN KING

God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with...
STEPHEN CROTTS

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wo...
STEPHEN SPENDER

After the day there cometh the derke night; For though the day be never so longe, At last the ...
STEPHEN HAWES

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
STEPHEN KING

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ...
STEPHEN FRY

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of ...
STEPHEN RICHARDS

Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.
STEPHEN RICHARDS

If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t...
STEPHEN KING

We accept the love we think we deserve.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with som...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

When I started to mention to people who know about such things, 'I'm doing this game, 'Portal 2', they got very excited, suddenly. More excited than anything I've ever done before, weirdly. Gamers are incredibly enthusiastic about the stuff they love.

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Stephen Merchant

When I started to mention to people who know about such things, 'I'm doing this game, 'Portal 2', they got very excited, suddenly. More excited than anything I've ever done before, weirdly. Gamers are incredibly enthusiastic about the stuff they love.

Stephen Merchant

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