It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
STEPHEN FRYWhen 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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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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’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.
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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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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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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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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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