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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 am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.
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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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 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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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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But 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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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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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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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