It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
STEPHEN FRYI’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 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 don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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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 don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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It was extremely important to show that Wilde’s sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
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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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