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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

Stephen Fry

You don’t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn’t work like that.
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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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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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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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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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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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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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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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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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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