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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

Stephen Fry

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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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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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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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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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 shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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I don’t watch TV. 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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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