Happiness is no respecter of persons.
STEPHEN FRYThey 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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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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 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 don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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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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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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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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