Paul Merton Quotes

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

I look at this game from a different perspective.

I just can't help but see things differently.

I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.

Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.

I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director.

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them.

I don't think there's any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you feel you have a fresh perspective and an understanding of a certain emotional truth, it's always worth writing.

Now we have to hit them from a different angle.

All my close friends are non-conformist. To say 'misfits' sounds bad, but there is something positive about being a little on the outside - it gives you an interesting perspective on things - and I think that's something Robyn and I share.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.

I love movies where people see the world from a different angle.

You know, I hate to borrow Apple's tag, but think different. Really. From the very beginning. I didn't know what the fast-food rules were. I got my training at the Culinary Institute Of America, and then I opened up a fast food place according to fine dining rules.

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

I'd rather see the world from a different angle.

I think crazy people are helpful, crazy people who are the catalysts who make other things happen for everyone else. It's almost as if they're not really making things happen in their own life, but their hyperactivity is triggered for everyone else.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

I'm a peripheral visionary.

In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.

Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do with it. Freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation.