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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

Stephen Fry

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
STEPHEN FRY

Cliche Like Most True Untrue
My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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Between Divide Least Life Mixture Perform Two Write
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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Bound Happen Hard Labor Nineties Not Really Regret Someone Victory Work
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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Die Facilities Just Lose never Old Professor
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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Blackness Complete Direction Future Go Purpose Seem Sense Somehow
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
I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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But Coward Enough Lazy Oddly
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.
STEPHEN FRY

Always Amusingly Country Eccentric English Great Had People Person Respect
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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Bipolar Condition Disorder Go Mider Now One Severe Spectrum
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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Because Collect Country Exist Graphic Intelligent Knew never Novel People Peron Person Personality Rate
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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But Happiness No Person Respect
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Arrive Better Child Christian First Hopefully Proof Terrible Travel
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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Anybody Doubt Else Extreme Greater Have Mood No
There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Is Learn Much So Television There Window World
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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Back Being But Could Country Durect Go Great Hero However I Love People Person Time
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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Action Chair Coffee Film Limit Love Machine Most Move Them Watch

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