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My father was all brain and little heart.

Stephen Fry

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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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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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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 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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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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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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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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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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My father was all brain and little heart.

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