I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
STEPHEN FRYGenerally, we admire the thing we are not.
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I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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