I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
STEPHEN FRYMoving 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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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 get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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