Mel Smith Quotes

#1. The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.

Louis Leakey

#2. Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.

Benito Mussolini

#3. We celebrate those comebacks because they inspire us to believe that seemingly impossible things really are possible.

Ed Stetzer

#4. You've only got so long to live.

Sylvia Plath

#5. That is the way leaves fall around a tree in autumn, a tree unaware of the rain running down its sides, of the sun or the frost, and of life gradually retreating inward. The tree does not die. It waits.

Hermann Hesse

#6. But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

Mel Smith

#7. Now it's closing time/the music's fading out.

Tom Waits

#8. I don't always feel what I know I should feel.
My thought crosses the river I swim very slowly
Because the suit men made it wear weighs it down.

Alberto Caeiro

#9. I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.

Mel Smith

#10. In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done.

Mel Smith

#11. I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos in it and I'm intrigued by her.

Mel Smith

#12. It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

Mel Smith

#13. I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I'm doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile.

Carson Kressley

#14. In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! If you have to choose between the audience and the art, always choose the second! You must know that the audience will constantly pull you down; resist it and fly at the heights like an eagle!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. The funny thing is, London is an incredibly interesting city. It's very sexy and it's very different, with the Thames winding through it like a snake.

Mel Smith

#16. There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.

Desiderius Erasmus

#17. A horse blanket, Mel?
I remembered what I was wearing. 'It tore in half when Hrani tried washing it. She was going to mend it. This piece was too small for a horse, but it was just right for me.'
Bran laughed a little unsteadly. 'Mel. A horse blanket.

Sherwood Smith

#18. How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.

Mel Smith