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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Stephen Fry

Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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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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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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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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 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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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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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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