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But happiness is no respecter of persons.

Stephen Fry

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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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.
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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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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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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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