Merchant Quotes

I tell young actors today to join the Merchant Marines for a year, and I tell young women to volunteer in a hospital emergency ward if they can. You get to see different people, cultures, dress - it`s a marvelous education for an actor.

About director _J.P. Dutta_: "J P Dutta is a committed taskmaster. I have danced to songs before. But he always added to choreographer Vaibhavi Merchant`s steps, and that was quite challenging. He would shoot an entire mukhda in one shot. To do all the songs at that level required remaining focused at all times. In that moment, I felt I became Umrao Jaan. It was interesting to deliver a performance that shows her passionate but tragic story. The film is also reflective of the art that was at its zenith in that era. The sex trade was called the performing arts then and not prostitution." (October 2006)

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

A Merchant Ivory film, It`s quite hard to finance this kind of film, so there`s a sort of pressure to move through the day and get it done.

He`s eight foot tall, has stupid glasses, awful hair, but it makes me look good, which is why he`s in the series. We look so strange on screen together as well. The height difference is ridiculous. I want people to know that he is a freak and I`m the normal one. Don`t look at this and go, `What? Didn`t know Ricky was a dwarf.` I`m not. He`s the weird one. - mocking his comedy partner, Stephen Merchant

We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.

We should be considered an arms merchant. We are suppliers of technology to businesses that are serving their customers.

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.

Right now I`m writing a book on India called Ismail Merchant`s India. It will be published at the end of next year. So, I`m keeping myself busy!

Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in 1990 to really start our wholesale merchant business.

We have a lot of transactions, and the ones that are the easiest to do are the consumer-to-merchant, where they pay by credit card.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

The merchant has no country