They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
From Stephen Fry
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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'.
I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
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.
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.
Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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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