But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
STEPHEN FRYAn original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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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 don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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’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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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