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.
STEPHEN FRYNow, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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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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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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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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I don’t watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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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 like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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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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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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But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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