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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.

Stephen Fry

My father was all brain and little heart.
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All Brain Faith Heart Little War
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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Accent Brillance Country Detect Fool May Not Realy Say Should Sometimes There Treason Wonder
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Die Facilities Just Lose never Old Professor
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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Actor Being Certain Film Had Illusion Kind Lead
Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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Because Country Down Face Let Offer Part People Person Turn
That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
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Another Can Gender Homophobe Love Not Only Really Same Stand
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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Always Bear Down Feel Human Being Hundred Let Ourselves Percent
You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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Act Direct Film Live One Seven Six Take Time
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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Aspect Children Deeply Drive English Insane Kind Literature Love Person Probably Shakespeare Teach Thing University Want
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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Accurate Detail Future never Paraphernalia Project Spirit Think View
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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Acor Always Change Idea Look Love No Someone Think
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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Email Exhaus Know Letter Most Phone Ring Someone Something Time You
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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But Happiness No Person Respect
Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Crack Over Paper Somehow Structural Tend Use Word Writer
When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
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Backward Cloth Do Exist Know Nude Seen Somersault
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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Become Corner Country Don Quite Something Somewhere Stay Through Tweed Went Would

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