I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
STEPHEN FRYYou 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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of 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 shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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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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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it’ll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
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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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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 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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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