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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Stephen Fry

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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I don’t watch TV. 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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There is so much we can learn from TV. It’s a window on the world.
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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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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’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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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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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
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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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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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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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An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.
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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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