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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.

Stephen Fry

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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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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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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 father was all brain and little heart.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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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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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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