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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’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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we’re not 100 per cent human, that we’re always letting ourselves down. We’re constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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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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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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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