I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
STEPHEN FRYBecause, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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 don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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My father was all brain and little heart.
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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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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’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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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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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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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 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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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