You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
STEPHEN FRYBut 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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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 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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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I’ve always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden’s animations.
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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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