When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
STEPHEN FRYOld Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a 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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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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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.
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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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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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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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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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