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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

Stephen Fry

I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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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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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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I don’t watch TV. 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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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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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 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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When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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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 think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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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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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

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