I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
STEPHEN FRYWhen you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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I 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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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