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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Stephen Fry

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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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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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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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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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
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I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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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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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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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 watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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