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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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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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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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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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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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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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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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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.
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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 is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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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It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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