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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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 went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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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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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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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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