I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
STEPHEN FRYI think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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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 like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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