Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Kaye

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English comedian Paul Kaye.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Paul Kaye

Paul Kaye is an English comedian and actor. He is known for his portrayals of shock interviewer Dennis Pennis on The Sunday Show, New York lawyer Mike Strutter on MTV's Strutter, Thoros of Myr in HBO's Game of Thrones, and Vincent the Fox on the BBC comedy Mongrels.

I watched the first week of 'Hell's Kitchen'. It was fascinating to see Marco Pierre White because I've only ever seen him in moody photographs.
Even when I go to the gym I sit in the steam room for an hour, come back really red-faced and pretend I've been for a run, so there's no need to worry.
I'd hit thirty, I'd sort of failed as a musician, I'd failed as an artist I felt at the time.
From the age of 14 onwards it was really punk rock, The Clash particularly. I think I learnt more from them than I did at school, because that got me into fashion, politics.
My only regret is that I didn't get into acting ten years earlier when I was handsome!
I don't know what my ambitions are until they turn up really but I'd love to work with Shane Meadows, I know that much!
I'm incredibly dull and I very rarely leave the house. I don't go out, I don't drink, I'm really boring.
When I was younger I looked a bit like Matthew Modine out of 'Birdy'. — © Paul Kaye
When I was younger I looked a bit like Matthew Modine out of 'Birdy'.
There were points when I've thought about getting into landscape gardening or getting back to illustrating, but mostly with a bit of a chip on my shoulder.
I've tried, in periods of unemployment, to pick up a paintbrush.
I used to run into lampposts. That was my party trick. — © Paul Kaye
I used to run into lampposts. That was my party trick.
I'd spent so much of my youth and twenties dying my hair bright red to either look like Ziggy Stardust or Johnny Rotten.
I remember lying to my producer that I'd heard Sean Penn was coming out of a different exit, just to avoid him - he was punching journalists left, right and centre at that point.
The two books I've re-read more than any others are Guenter Grass's 'The Tin Drum' and Victor Hugo's 'Notre-Dame de Paris'.
Looking back, it amuses me that people imagined that I was a very brash, fearless, redheaded young revolutionary when I was in fact a very insecure, mousy-haired, middle-aged man with a deep fear of authority.
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