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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.

Stephen Fry

I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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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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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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I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
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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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I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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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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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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Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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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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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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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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 watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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.
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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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