Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
STEPHEN FRYSomehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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’.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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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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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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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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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 father was all brain and little heart.
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