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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

Stephen Fry

When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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’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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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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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 don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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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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