It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there’s an email, most of the time there’s a letter, someone wants something of you.
STEPHEN FRYIf 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 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 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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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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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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 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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