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

Stephen Fry

Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
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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 get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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Birth Book Elephant Get Give Go Pregnant Urge Way
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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Accent Brillance Country Detect Fool May Not Realy Say Should Sometimes There Treason Wonder
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
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But Happiness No Person Respect
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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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 like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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Armchair Down Home Like Myself Occasionally Shop Smoke Think Wander Write
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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Because Collect Country Exist Graphic Intelligent Knew never Novel People Peron Person Personality Rate
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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I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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Being Great Happy Have Intellect Path
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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I’m a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
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But Coward Enough Lazy Oddly
Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word’s full octave.
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Fight Five Full Love Octave Semitone Tone Word

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