When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
STEPHEN FRYLove in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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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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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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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 don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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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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Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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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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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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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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Personally, I’d never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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