I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
STEPHEN FRYThere’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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’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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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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