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’.
STEPHEN FRYNo, 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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That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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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 think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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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 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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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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