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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

Stephen Fry

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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 have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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